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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the capital of Ecuador?
(a) Guayaquil.
(b) Tulcán.
(c) Guaranda.
(d) Quito.

2. What book does Roy make Mary get while he lays in his deathbed?
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Book of Mormon.
(c) The Vedas.
(d) The Bible.

3. What animal does Roy fight to stay alive to see on the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Giraffe.
(b) Tortoises.
(c) Dolphins.
(d) Penguins.

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

5. What happened to Adolf's parents?
(a) They were killed by a meteorite.
(b) They got lost at sea.
(c) They moved to the Galapagos Islands.
(d) They were murdered.

6. 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.

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

8. According to the narrator, what two animals keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves?
(a) Sea turtles and fish.
(b) Blue-footed boobies and finches.
(c) Killer whales and sharks.
(d) Dolphins and stingrays.

9. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?
(a) Restaurant Management.
(b) Paralegal.
(c) Automobile repair and maintenance.
(d) Aircraft repair and maintenance.

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

11. What television show does the Captain of the Bahia appear on?
(a) Regis and Kelly.
(b) Jay Leno.
(c) The Today Show.
(d) The Tonight Show.

12. Who befriended Wait after he ran away from home and taught him how to be a successful homosexual prostitute?
(a) A cop.
(b) A pimp.
(c) A waiter.
(d) A nurse.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator die?

2. What two names are left off the Bahia passenger list as a matter of delicacy?

3. Another theory is given that the animals on the Galapagos Islands had been shooed ashore two by two down the plank of __________.

4. What magazine does Andrew MacIntosh read from cover to cover every month?

5. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?

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