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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. How does the narrator die?

2. Who is Kazakh?

3. What magazine does Andrew MacIntosh read from cover to cover every month?

4. What animal does Roy fight to stay alive to see on the Galapagos Islands?

5. Who is considered to be wild and greedy and inconsiderate, but not insane?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the Hotel El Dorado.

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

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

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

9. How do people describe their brains in Chapter 6?

10. In Chapter 3, how is Charles Darwin described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of the Afterlife to the novel. What does the Afterlife look like? Do the characters have a choice to enter into the Afterlife? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How are the blue-footed boobies in the novel symbolic? Why do you think the author puts such an emphasis on the blue-footed boobies? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

The portrait of Charles Darwin hangs behind the bar in the Hotel El Dorado. Why do you think Charles Darwin is such an important figure to the characters in the novel? In your opinion, do you think Charles Darwin should be seen as an idol? Explain.

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