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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What heirloom does Mary promise to leave Akiko when she dies?
(a) Mandarax.
(b) Her wedding ring.
(c) Orlon.
(d) Her notebook.

2. Who was head of the English Department at Ilium High School who had proposed marriage to Mary Hepburn?
(a) Robert Wojciehowitz.
(b) Charles Carryl.
(c) Joseph Conrad.
(d) Samuel Butler.

3. What is the theory behind people with more of a streamlined skull?
(a) The more successful the business person.
(b) The more successful the farming person.
(c) The more successful the fisher person.
(d) The more successful the cooking person.

4. Why was James Wait ashamed to take off his shirt?
(a) He had acne all over his body.
(b) He had scars all over his body.
(c) He had freckles all over his body.
(d) He had moles all over his body.

5. Who fathers Akiko's seven furry children?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Mandarax.
(c) Siegfried von Kleist.
(d) Kamikaze.

6. Who do the Kanka-bono girls hate?
(a) Mary Hepburn.
(b) Kamikaze.
(c) Akiko.
(d) Adolf von Kleist.

7. What is the international word for a ship in distress?
(a) Yardım.
(b) Inferno.
(c) Mayday.
(d) Ajutor.

8. Who is Sinka?
(a) Mary Hepburn's sister.
(b) Leon Trout's wife.
(c) Selena's new seeing-eye dog.
(d) The first Kanka-bono girl who has a baby.

9. Who said: "Progress has been much more general than retrogression."
(a) Henry Adams.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Beethoven.

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

11. Who was Mrs. Onassis's first husband?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Charles Darwin.

12. Leon Trout's fellow Marine recommends a young __________ doctor to treat his disease.
(a) Scottish.
(b) Irish.
(c) Russian.
(d) Swedish.

13. What can the narrator see that Mary Hepburn can not in Book 2: Chapter 7?
(a) A tidal wave.
(b) The albatrosses.
(c) The blue tunnel into the Afterlife.
(d) Land.

14. What nickname does Mary Hepburn give to the Bahia?
(a) Leaky Weeks.
(b) The Gray Ghost.
(c) Lady Broadway.
(d) The Walloping Willow Blind.

15. The balance between the colonists and their food supply is based on ________.
(a) Luck.
(b) Desire.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Trust.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Bahia is raided, what is the Captain still in possession of?

2. What island does Mary and the Captain land the Bahia?

3. Who steers the Bahia during the night in Book 2: Chapter 4?

4. Who plans to commit suicide by smashing a bus into something?

5. When does Mary's second husband die?

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