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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) Times Magazine.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) Forbes Magazine.

2. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Bahia de Navidad.
(b) The Bahia de Santander.
(c) The Bahia de Darwin.
(d) The Bahia de Caraquez Ecuador.

3. Who can talk to animals?
(a) Mary.
(b) Roy.
(c) Selena.
(d) Leon.

4. Who is Willard Flemming?
(a) The manager at the Hotel El Dorado.
(b) The bartender at the Hotel El Dorado.
(c) The name James Wait uses on his Canadian passport.
(d) Mary Hepburn's first husband.

5. How many children do the Hepburn's have?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the body of water named in honor of Charles Darwin?

2. What nationality does James Wait claim to be in Chapter 2?

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

4. Where was the Bahia built?

5. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the Hotel El Dorado.

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

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

6. Describe the city of Guayaquil as it is described in Chapter 1.

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

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

9. In Chapter 9, what is Roy Hepburn's dying compared to? Explain.

10. In Chapter 25, how is Hernando Cruz's case compared to that of Jesus Ortiz?

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