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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the first 13 years on Santa Rosalia, who is the only fertile women?
(a) Mary Hepburn.
(b) Jacqueline Onassis.
(c) Selena MacIntosh.
(d) Akiko Hiroguchi.

2. Who legally marries Mary Kaplan and Willard Flemming?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Selena MacIntosh.
(d) Mandarax.

3. What is the name of the Peruvian pilot who has his fighter-bomber skipping from wisp to wisp of finely divided matter at the very edge of the planet's atmosphere in Chapter 34?
(a) Bobby King.
(b) Guillermo Reyes.
(c) Kilgore Trout.
(d) Willard Flemming.

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

5. What secret does Mary Hepburn keep from the Captain in Book 2: Chapter 11?
(a) That she was dying.
(b) That she killed James Wait.
(c) That a Kanka-bono girl was pregnant.
(d) That she found a food supply.

6. Who is Orlon?
(a) Dirno's four year old son.
(b) Akiko's four year old son.
(c) Mary's four year old son.
(d) Sinka's four year old son.

7. Who is Kamikaze?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh's son.
(b) Selena's seeing-eye dog.
(c) The Captain's son.
(d) Mary Hepburn's son.

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

9. How many Maine lobsters were in aerated tanks of saltwater on board the Bahia before it was looted.
(a) 365.
(b) 50.
(c) 200.
(d) 450.

10. What are "ghetto blasters?"
(a) Portable radios and tape-players.
(b) Walkie Talkies.
(c) A type of whistle.
(d) Type of weapon.

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

12. Who could be seen as a virtuous knight as in days of yore in Chapter 38?
(a) Mandarax.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Major Ricardo Cortez.

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

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

15. What is Ziggie?
(a) Siegfried's nickname.
(b) James Wait's nickname.
(c) Mandarax's nickname.
(d) Roy Hepburn's nickname.

Short Answer Questions

1. The balance between the colonists and their food supply is based on ________.

2. Which group survives in the greatest numbers in the watery environment of the Galapagos Archipelago?

3. What animal begins attacking the Captain's bedsores?

4. Who is the only non-Kanka-bono who can converse with the Kanka-bonos?

5. Why is James Wait laid on the sun deck of the Bahia in Book 2: Chapter 1?

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