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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Bahia sinks, who has the only beard on the island?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Willard Flemming.
(c) Siegfried von Kleist.
(d) Andrew MacIntosh.

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

3. Which group survives in the greatest numbers in the watery environment of the Galapagos Archipelago?
(a) Fisher-folk.
(b) Farmer-folk.
(c) Business-folk.
(d) Manufacture -folk.

4. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?
(a) To work until they die.
(b) To gain knowledge.
(c) To help each other.
(d) To find cures to diseases.

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

6. What was James Wait's father and mother's other relation?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Son and mother.
(c) Brother and sister.
(d) Cousins.

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

8. As far as humanity is concerned, the Bahia is the new __________.
(a) Ariel.
(b) Sir Lancelot.
(c) Titanic.
(d) Noah's Ark.

9. What doubt does Mary Hepburn have that leads her to take action to get a Kanka-bono girl pregnant?
(a) Whether a woman could be impregnated by another one.
(b) Whether the Captain was able to reproduce.
(c) Whether Kamikazi was able to reproduce.
(d) Whether the Kanka-bono girls were furtile.

10. Who does Hisako Hiroguchi perform her first intimate act with in Chapter 32?
(a) Mary.
(b) Mandarax.
(c) Siegfried.
(d) Selena.

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

12. What did the narrator do in his sleep when he was alive?
(a) Sleep eat.
(b) Sleep walk.
(c) Wet the bed.
(d) Sleep talk.

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

14. When does Mary's second husband die?
(a) 2 minutes after they are married.
(b) 2years after they are married.
(c) 2 weeks after they are married.
(d) 2 months after they are married.

15. After the Bahia is raided, what is the Captain still in possession of?
(a) His sense of humor.
(b) The rats inside the Bahia.
(c) His sense of direction.
(d) The Maine lobster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following author's are not quoted in Chapter 35?

2. Who is the Captain addressing when he shouts, "Welcome to 'the Nature Cruise of the Century'!"

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

4. Who speaks to Leon above the stern of the Bahia?

5. When does Selena find out that her father has passed away on the Bahia?

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