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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Geospiza difficilis.
(b) Red-footed boobies.
(c) Peacocks.
(d) Pink Flamingos.

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

4. Who disconnects the El Dorado's phones in Chapter 25?
(a) Jesús Ortiz.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) Hernando Cruz.
(d) Adolf von Kleist.

5. Who was a former citizen of the Soviet Union and has been granted political asylum in Great Britain?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh.
(b) Kilgore Trout.
(c) Rudolf Nureyev.
(d) Bobby King.

6. In what language does Andrew MacIntosh speak to Jesús Ortiz in?
(a) English.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Swedish.
(d) Kongo.

7. Who's maiden name is Boone?
(a) Selena MacIntosh.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) Hisako Hiroguchi.
(d) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

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

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

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

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

12. What is ikebana?
(a) The Chinese art of sculpture making.
(b) The Chinese art of flower arranging.
(c) The Japanese art of flower arranging.
(d) The Japanese art of pottery making.

13. How many children do the Hepburn's have?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

14. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?
(a) At the dance studio.
(b) On the streets.
(c) On a cruise.
(d) At the bar.

15. What branch of military had Roy served in?
(a) The Army.
(b) The Airforce.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator die?

2. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.

3. In what year was the last human marriage in the Galapagos Islands performed?

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

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

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