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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times has the narrator been married?
(a) 1.
(b) 17.
(c) 2.
(d) 0.

2. Whom do the Kanka-bono girls eat?
(a) Kamikaze.
(b) Mandarax.
(c) Akiko.
(d) Kazakh.

3. At what age did James Wait become a sire?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 30.
(d) 13.

4. How many years had passed since Mary last spoke to the Captain?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

5. Who is the Captain addressing when he shouts, "Welcome to 'the Nature Cruise of the Century'!"
(a) Leon Trout.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) Adolf von Kleist.
(d) Siegfried von Kleist.

6. How many times has the narrator materialized since becoming a ghost?
(a) 7.
(b) 0.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

7. What is the name of the latest advance in the evolution of high explosives?
(a) Glacco.
(b) Acme Dynamite.
(c) Dagonite.
(d) TNT.

8. Who bathes the Captain every day and shampoos and combs his beard and hair?
(a) Akiko.
(b) Sinka.
(c) Kamikaze.
(d) Mary Hepburn.

9. Who finds himself posing as a protector of children?
(a) Leon Trout.
(b) Siefried von Kleist.
(c) Mandarax.
(d) James Wait.

10. Who plans to commit suicide by smashing a bus into something?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Willard Flemming.
(c) Selena MacIntosh.
(d) Siegfried von Kleist.

11. What does Princess Charlotte design after the death of her husband, Prince Richard?
(a) Bathing suits.
(b) Wedding gowns.
(c) Baby clothes.
(d) Neckties.

12. According to the narrator, how do people comfort those who are sick?
(a) With prayer and worship.
(b) With soothing tones and voice.
(c) With a ceremonial dance.
(d) With a hot cup of chicken noddle soup.

13. When does Selena find out that her father has passed away on the Bahia?
(a) After she passes away.
(b) While she is on the Galapagos Islands.
(c) Immediately after he dies.
(d) While she is on Santa Rosalia.

14. Which of the following author's are not quoted in Chapter 35?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Robert Browning.
(c) Plato.
(d) Jean De La Fontaine.

15. Who fathers all the Kanka-bono girl's children?
(a) Kamikaze.
(b) James Wait.
(c) The Captain.
(d) Leon Trout.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sinka?

2. Who do the Kanka-bono girls hate?

3. Who said: "Progress has been much more general than retrogression."

4. According to the narrator, what is one of the top 1000 serious inherited diseases of Homo sapiens?

5. What is Guillermo Reyes's rocket compared to in Chapter 34?

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