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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 Mary Hepburn die?

2. 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?

3. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?

4. What animal is not found on the Galapagos Islands?

5. According to the narrator, what are the people of the Galapagos Islands only tool?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Mary Hepburn believe she had a brain tumor in Chapter 7?

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

6. What mystery in 1986 A.D. is discussed in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Theories of how animals landed on the Galapagos Islands vary from transportation via rafts to religious phenomena. Discuss at least three theories revealed in the text as to how animals landed on the Islands; to what extent can these theories be proven? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

In your opinion, how are women viewed in the novel Galapagos? Are women overruled by their male counterparts or are women treated equally? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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