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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 does Mary Hepburn die?
(a) She has a brain tumor.
(b) A great white shark eats her.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She falls overboard the Bahia.

2. What name does Zenji Hiroguchi travel under?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Zenji Kenzaburo.
(c) Paloma Picasso.
(d) Willard Flemming.

3. What happened to Adolf's parents?
(a) They were murdered.
(b) They got lost at sea.
(c) They moved to the Galapagos Islands.
(d) They were killed by a meteorite.

4. What is the name of the Galapagos Islands' northernmost island?
(a) Santa Rosalia.
(b) Easter Island.
(c) Isabela Island.
(d) Cocos Island.

5. Who is a bartender at the Hotel El Dorado and a 21 year old descendant of proud Inca noblemen?
(a) Leon Trout.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Willard Flemming.
(d) Jesus Ortiz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?

2. In Chapter 26, where does the Captain devise his emergency plan for the Bahia?

3. What is the name given to the moment when the beaks of the blue-footed boobies are pointed in the direction exactly opposite to the pull of gravity?

4. Mary Hepburn whispers, "You are my enemy. Why would I want to carry such a terrible enemy inside of me?" What is she referring to?

5. How many wives has James Wait had?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people describe their brains in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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