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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is one of the top 1000 serious inherited diseases of Homo sapiens?
(a) Bird flu.
(b) Retinitis pigmentosa.
(c) External Otitis.
(d) Conjunctivitis.

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

4. Who speaks to Leon above the stern of the Bahia?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) His Father.
(c) Mary Hepburn.
(d) Samuel Johnston.

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

6. Who says: "I love you so much. Please marry me. I'm so lonesome. I'm so scared."
(a) Kamikaze.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) Madarax.
(d) James Wait.

7. Who does the surviving group on board the Bahia expect the most trouble to come from in Chapter 37?
(a) Kazakh.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) Madarax.
(d) James Wait.

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

9. 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.

10. What is Guillermo Reyes's rocket compared to in Chapter 34?
(a) The colorful chameleon.
(b) The dancing blue-footed booby.
(c) The flightless penguin.
(d) The great land torotise.

11. Who responds to the Captain's SOS in Book 2: Chapter 7?
(a) Mandarax.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Kilgore Trout.
(d) Robert Wojciehowitz.

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

13. What important object is missing from the Bahia?
(a) The hull.
(b) The figurehead.
(c) The helm.
(d) The anchor.

14. Where is the Bahia headed in Book 2: Chapter 2?
(a) New York.
(b) Baltra.
(c) Australia.
(d) Fiji.

15. Who will become the six Eves to Captain von Kleist's Adam on Santa Rosalia?
(a) The Kama'aina girls.
(b) The Kanka-bonos girls.
(c) The Cheechako girls.
(d) The Kanaka Maoli girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the narrator see that Mary Hepburn can not in Book 2: Chapter 7?

2. What food source is a cure for people with vitamin and mineral deficiencies?

3. Whom do the Kanka-bono girls eat?

4. The narrator's mom once told him that he had the blood of a ________ noblemen flowing through his veins.

5. Where does Siegfried von Kleist tell Selena her father went in Chapter 31?

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