3. 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?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Leon Trout.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Panama hats come from?

2. What is the capital of Ecuador?

3. What happened to Adolf's parents?

4. Who is Kazakh?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who stated, "The dry and parched surface, being heated by the noon-day sun, gave to the air a close and sultry feeling, like that from a stove: we fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly?" What is this statement in reference to?

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

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

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

10. Why does Siegfried von Kleist have no children?

(see the answer keys)

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