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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. What magazine does Andrew MacIntosh read from cover to cover every month?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) Forbes Magazine.
(d) Times Magazine.

2. Who disconnects the El Dorado's phones in Chapter 25?
(a) Jesús Ortiz.
(b) Hernando Cruz.
(c) Adolf von Kleist.
(d) Mary Hepburn.

3. The Bahia is technically a ship designed for ________.
(a) Fishing.
(b) Cargo.
(c) Scuba diving.
(d) War.

4. What nationality does James Wait claim to be in Chapter 2?
(a) Irish.
(b) German.
(c) American.
(d) Canadian.

5. What do the two stars by the names of certain characters in the story mean?
(a) These characters are the most important.
(b) These characters are the only surviving characters.
(c) These characters are royal figures.
(d) These characters would be dead before the sun went down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the archipelago of volcanic peaks due west of Guayaquil?

2. What is the name of the ship that Darwin took on a mapping expedition that would take him completely around the world and would last five years?

3. The narrator's mother could do all of the following dance forms except which one?

4. Who coined the term "biology?"

5. How does the narrator die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the Bahia De Darwin to the Beagle.

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

3. In a desperate attempt to keep his passengers from canceling their cruise on the Bahia, what does Bobby King do?

4. What mystery in 1986 A.D. is discussed in Chapter 1?

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

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

7. Does Mary Hepburn want to go to the Galapagos Islands? Explain.

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

9. What is Mandarax? Who created it? How many Mandarax were made? What is its function?

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

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