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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 name does Zenji Hiroguchi travel under?

2. What television show does the Captain of the Bahia appear on?

3. Who is Donald?

4. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?

5. How many children do the Hepburn's have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 25, how is Hernando Cruz's case compared to that of Jesus Ortiz?

7. Why does Siegfried von Kleist have no children?

8. What two promises does Roy Hepburn ask his wife to keep on his deathbed?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator, Leon Trout, states that all the sorrows of humankind are caused by "the only true villain in my story: the oversized human brain." Do you agree with his statement? Explain by using specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

In Book 1: Chapter 2, the narrator sees the blind Selena as an "experiment by Nature." Explain what the narrator means by an "experiment by Nature." Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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