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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many wives has James Wait had?
(a) 17.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

2. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?
(a) It is loaned to him from the bank.
(b) He wins it at the casino.
(c) He inherites the money.
(d) It is loaned to him from a relative.

3. Who is considered to be wild and greedy and inconsiderate, but not insane?
(a) Mary Hepburn.
(b) Hernando Cruz.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Andrew MacIntosh.

4. What book does Roy make Mary get while he lays in his deathbed?
(a) The Book of Mormon.
(b) The Koran.
(c) The Vedas.
(d) The Bible.

5. It is theorized that ________ created all the creatures on the Galapagos Islands, so they had no need for transportation.
(a) Buddha.
(b) God.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Mohammed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kazakh?

2. Who coined the term "biology?"

3. According to the narrator, what two animals keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves?

4. What war did the narrator fight in?

5. Who is Donald?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mary Hepburn practically unseen in the Hotel El Dorado?

2. In what way is Mary Hepburn "Mother Nature Personified?"

3. When does Adolf von Kleist tell Mary Hepburn that he might be a carrier of Huntington's chorea?

4. Why does Kazakh never bark or play with other dogs?

5. Why does the narrator choose the Captain's head to get into in Chapter 23?

6. How does Mary Hepburn recognize the Island of Santa Rosalia in Chapter 24?

7. What had Hernando Cruz planned to do to the Bahia if the trip was canceled?

8. Who discovered the Galapagos Islands in 1535 A.D.?

9. Summarize James Wait's childhood as it is described in Chapter 3.

10. Why does Mary Hepburn believe she had a brain tumor in Chapter 7?

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