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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 foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?
(a) 19.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. Who's maiden name is Boone?
(a) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(b) Hisako Hiroguchi.
(c) Mary Hepburn.
(d) Selena MacIntosh.

3. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Seigfried von Kleist.

4. What bird is a teaser and a robber of the blue-footed boobies?
(a) The penguin.
(b) The frigate.
(c) The waved albatrosses.
(d) The blue heron.

5. What year was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a bartender at the Hotel El Dorado and a 21 year old descendant of proud Inca noblemen?

2. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?

3. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?

4. What make and model vehicle does Hernando Cruz drive?

5. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Compare and contrast the Galapagos Islands back in 1986 A.D. to a million years later.

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

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

5. Discuss the three examples the narrator uses to show how people can become independent from their parents.

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

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

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

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

10. Give two theories that are discussed for how animals arrived on the Galapagos Islands.

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