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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who owns the Bahia?
(a) A pair of old German brothers.
(b) A pair of young German brothers.
(c) A pair of old German sisters.
(d) A pair of young German sisters.

2. What is Mary Hepburn wearing when she arrives at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) A silk formal dress.
(b) A cheeta print dress.
(c) U.S. Marine Corps combat fatigues.
(d) Jeans and a tank top.

3. Who can talk to animals?
(a) Selena.
(b) Roy.
(c) Leon.
(d) Mary.

4. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?
(a) Peacocks.
(b) Red-footed boobies.
(c) Geospiza difficilis.
(d) Pink Flamingos.

5. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?
(a) He inherites the money.
(b) He wins it at the casino.
(c) It is loaned to him from a relative.
(d) It is loaned to him from the bank.

6. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Seigfried von Kleist.

7. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.
(a) Chicago.
(b) Midland.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Manhattan.

8. When does Siegfried von Kleist die?
(a) November 27, 1986.
(b) October 31, 1986.
(c) December 25, 1986.
(d) April 13, 1986.

9. How does the narrator die?
(a) He died of old age.
(b) He was beheaded.
(c) A brain tumor.
(d) He was ate by a shark.

10. How many cruise ships have their port in Guayaquil?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

11. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Siegfried von Kleist.
(c) Andrew MacIntosh.
(d) Eduardo Ximénez.

12. What year was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1941.

13. What country is Peru about to declare war on in Chapter 22?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Paraguay.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Guyana.

14. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Bahia de Santander.
(b) The Bahia de Darwin.
(c) The Bahia de Navidad.
(d) The Bahia de Caraquez Ecuador.

15. What bird becomes crucial to the survival of the little human colony on Santa Rosalia?
(a) Waved albatross.
(b) Red-footed booby.
(c) Finch.
(d) Blue-footed booby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mary Hepburn's husband, Roy, die from?

2. How many foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?

3. How many tombs are on the Galapagos Islands?

4. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?

5. What is the name of the body of water named in honor of Charles Darwin?

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