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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship that Darwin took on a mapping expedition that would take him completely around the world and would last five years?

2. Who is the 35-year-old American male who could not swim a stroke, who intended to get from the South American continent to the Galapagos Islands?

3. What is the name of the Ecuadorian currency that has become worth less than a banana peel?

4. What is ikebana?

5. Who is considered the ancestor of every human being on the face of the earth and the Captain of the Bahia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the Hotel El Dorado.

6. When does Adolf von Kleist tell Mary Hepburn that he might be a carrier of Huntington's chorea?

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

8. Describe Andrew MacIntosh's personality as it is described in Chapter 19.

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

10. Compare and contrast Mandarax to Gokubi.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Give a full and complete profile of James Wait. Identify his physical appearance, his mental, emotional, and personality characteristics, and detail his past history. Use direct references from the novel and cite your references.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss sensuality, sexuality, and fertility as it pertains to the novel. Be sure to give at least one example of each from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Make a case for or against the following statement: "Culture and society is just something that humans do because it is programmed in their brains." Use the novel for evidence to support your case.

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