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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film footage did Mary Hepburn show her students when she lectured on the Galapagos Islands at Ilium High School?
(a) The courtship dance of the red-footed boobies.
(b) The courtship dance of the blue-footed boobies.
(c) The courtship dance of the finches.
(d) The courtship dance of the waved albatross.

2. What make and model vehicle does Hernando Cruz drive?
(a) Mercedes Benz SLR.
(b) BMW Mini Cooper.
(c) Ford Mustang.
(d) Cadillac El Dorado.

3. How does Mary Hepburn die?
(a) A great white shark eats her.
(b) She falls overboard the Bahia.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She has a brain tumor.

4. What animal is not found on the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Iguanas.
(b) Geckos.
(c) Gophers.
(d) Tortoises.

5. Who is Willard Flemming?
(a) The manager at the Hotel El Dorado.
(b) The name James Wait uses on his Canadian passport.
(c) The bartender at the Hotel El Dorado.
(d) Mary Hepburn's first husband.

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

7. In Chapter 26, where does the Captain devise his emergency plan for the Bahia?
(a) In the ocean.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the sauna.
(d) In the shower.

8. What is James Wait's native city?
(a) Akron.
(b) Midland City.
(c) Reading.
(d) Springfield.

9. According to the narrator, what are the people of the Galapagos Islands only tool?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Fingers.
(d) Teeth.

10. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Galileo.

11. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Jazz.
(b) Contemporary.
(c) Ballroom.
(d) Salsa.

12. Who's brain is so big that it can show him movies in his head which stars him and his dependents as millionaires?
(a) Leon Trout.
(b) Domingo Quezeda.
(c) Andrew MacIntosh.
(d) Jesús Ortiz.

13. How many foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?
(a) 19.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

14. in 1986 A.D., where was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador?
(a) Esmeraldas.
(b) Babahoyo.
(c) Guayaquil.
(d) Guaranda.

15. What was the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) A science-fiction writer.
(b) A biology teacher.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A pastry chef.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tombs are on the Galapagos Islands?

2. What nationality does James Wait claim to be in Chapter 2?

3. What bird becomes crucial to the survival of the little human colony on Santa Rosalia?

4. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?

5. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?

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