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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. Who does the surviving group on board the Bahia expect the most trouble to come from in Chapter 37?
(a) Madarax.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Kazakh.

2. What secret does Mary Hepburn keep from the Captain in Book 2: Chapter 11?
(a) That a Kanka-bono girl was pregnant.
(b) That she was dying.
(c) That she found a food supply.
(d) That she killed James Wait.

3. What is Ziggie?
(a) Siegfried's nickname.
(b) Roy Hepburn's nickname.
(c) James Wait's nickname.
(d) Mandarax's nickname.

4. Who speaks to Leon above the stern of the Bahia?
(a) Samuel Johnston.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) His Father.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. Who is Leon Trout?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The Captain of the Bahia.
(c) A paranoid schizophrenic soldier.
(d) The father of the Galapagos Islands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will become the six Eves to Captain von Kleist's Adam on Santa Rosalia?

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

3. Who responds to the Captain's SOS in Book 2: Chapter 7?

4. What is the language of the majority on Santa Rosalia?

5. Where is the Bahia headed in Book 2: Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Book 2: Chapter 12, what does the narrator suggest as a means for Mary Hepburn to keep on living with the Captain for a little while longer?

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

4. Why does Siegfried von Kleist dance in Chapter 37?

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

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

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

8. How is Prince Richard murdered? Who kills him?

9. Is Siegfried von Kleist successful at committing suicide in Chapter 38? Explain.

10. Why is the Bahia considered to be a ghost ship in the opinion of humankind?

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