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

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

3. What company is automating the Bahia and also employs Zenji Hiroguchi?
(a) GEFFCo.
(b) Matsumoto.
(c) Mitsumi.
(d) Sony.

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

5. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Midland.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who disconnects the El Dorado's phones in Chapter 25?

3. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?

4. What year was Charles Darwin born?

5. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator choose the Captain's head to get into in Chapter 23?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. In a desperate attempt to keep his passengers from canceling their cruise on the Bahia, what does Bobby King do?

7. Summarize James Wait's childhood as it is described in Chapter 3.

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

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

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

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