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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through April 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Mexican officials do with the expedition party?
(a) They arrive to discuss with Steinbeck the possibility of making a book about Cabo San Lucas.
(b) They arrive for a welcoming ceremony including coffee, smoking and a bit of paperwork.
(c) They arrive to talk to Steinbeck and Ricketts another expedition to be done within the year.
(d) They arrive to inspect the expedition party's baggages including the marine life they have caught.

2. Where does the expedition party sail next on Easter Sunday?
(a) They return to Magdalene Bay because tex forgot the collections he had.
(b) They leave La Paz and sail north to Tribecca.
(c) Out of the lagoon and to the next collecting stop south of Marcial Point.
(d) They finally sail to Cortez, Mexico.

3. What does the party find in Angeles Bay?
(a) They find that there are a dozen men who want to be part of their team.
(b) There seems to be an unknown settlement with a very odd sense of something strange going on.
(c) They find that it was closed to tourists and voyagers and they had to return to sea immediately.
(d) They find another expedition party heading to the same destination like them.

4. Why is the crew unable to collect many specimens on the day following Easter Sunday?
(a) Because the local police arrest Tex for not wearing a t-shirt all the time.
(b) Because the tide does not go very low, making it difficult to collect species in general.
(c) Because the locals will not allow them to take anything from their ocean.
(d) Because Steinbeck and Ricketts get into a fight, making it too awkward to do any collection.

5. How is the team's photography effort described in general?
(a) It is neither remarkably good or remarkably bad.
(b) It is so poor that it is used as an example of what shouldn't be done with a camera.
(c) It is so remarkable that it is cited as an example of what expeditions should follow during voyages.
(d) There is nothing mentioned about the team's photography efforts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be seen in Cabo San Lucas?

2. What is Steinbeck's thesis about origins of names of places, specifically California?

3. On Easter Sunday, despite facing difficulties collecting specimens, Steinbeck and Ricketts are able to catch a significant marine life - what is it?

4. Where is Cabo San Lucas?

5. After facing difficulties collecting specimens, what do Steinbeck and Ricketts do instead on Easter Sunday ?

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