View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Salsa.
(b) Contemporary.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Ballroom.

2. What is ikebana?
(a) The Chinese art of sculpture making.
(b) The Japanese art of flower arranging.
(c) The Chinese art of flower arranging.
(d) The Japanese art of pottery making.

3. What is Mary Hepburn wearing when she arrives at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) A cheeta print dress.
(b) U.S. Marine Corps combat fatigues.
(c) A silk formal dress.
(d) Jeans and a tank top.

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

5. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) Ecuador.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a former citizen of the Soviet Union and has been granted political asylum in Great Britain?

2. Who is Donald?

3. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?

4. How many children does Hernando Cruz have?

5. Who is the 35-year-old American male who could not swim a stroke, who intended to get from the South American continent to the Galapagos Islands?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What two promises does Roy Hepburn ask his wife to keep on his deathbed?

3. Describe Andrew MacIntosh's personality as it is described in Chapter 19.

4. Why do blue-footed boobies dance the way they do in courtship?

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

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

7. Who is Akiko, and what is unique about her? Where is she born?

8. Describe the Hotel El Dorado.

9. Describe Jesus Ortiz . What is his brain capable of doing?

10. In Chapter 3, how is Charles Darwin described?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 617 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample