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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 heirloom does Mary promise to leave Akiko when she dies?
(a) Mandarax.
(b) Her wedding ring.
(c) Orlon.
(d) Her notebook.

2. Who was head of the English Department at Ilium High School who had proposed marriage to Mary Hepburn?
(a) Robert Wojciehowitz.
(b) Charles Carryl.
(c) Joseph Conrad.
(d) Samuel Butler.

3. What is the theory behind people with more of a streamlined skull?
(a) The more successful the business person.
(b) The more successful the farming person.
(c) The more successful the fisher person.
(d) The more successful the cooking person.

4. Why was James Wait ashamed to take off his shirt?
(a) He had acne all over his body.
(b) He had scars all over his body.
(c) He had freckles all over his body.
(d) He had moles all over his body.

5. Who fathers Akiko's seven furry children?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Mandarax.
(c) Siegfried von Kleist.
(d) Kamikaze.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the Kanka-bono girls hate?

2. What is the international word for a ship in distress?

3. Who is Sinka?

4. Who said: "Progress has been much more general than retrogression."

5. Who bathes the Captain every day and shampoos and combs his beard and hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the narrator, why do people get hiccups?

2. What is the story behind Selena MacIntosh's blindness?

3. What is the launching of Reyes's missile compared to in Chapter 34?

4. In the Captain's story he shares with Akiko, how are lobsters much like humans?

5. When does Mary Hepburn begin her artificial insemination program? How old is she at the time?

6. How does Quezeda feed his brain's thirst for self-esteem and alcohol?

7. What does the narrator say after the death of Kazakh and James Wait? Why does he say this?

8. Why are the Kanka-bono girls laughing at the Captain in Chapter 11? Why does the Captain think they are laughing?

9. Who does Kamikaze catch by the spring and is about to copulate with?

10. How is the Bahia married to the South American mainland?

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