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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 species of finch are on the Island of Santa Rosalia?
(a) 30.
(b) 13.
(c) 3.
(d) 300.

2. Who coined the term "biology?"
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Gottfried Treveranus.

3. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?
(a) On a cruise.
(b) At the bar.
(c) On the streets.
(d) At the dance studio.

4. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Siegfried von Kleist.
(d) Eduardo Ximénez.

5. What television show does the Captain of the Bahia appear on?
(a) Regis and Kelly.
(b) Jay Leno.
(c) The Today Show.
(d) The Tonight Show.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird is a teaser and a robber of the blue-footed boobies?

2. Who's brain is so big that it can show him movies in his head which stars him and his dependents as millionaires?

3. Who says: "Good luck, my Swedish princess. I shall dream of you."

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

5. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Mary Hepburn believe she had a brain tumor in Chapter 7?

5. Why does Siegfried von Kleist have no children?

6. Describe the Hotel El Dorado.

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

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

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

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

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