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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Unnamed section, p. 55.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the greater purpose for which the author wants to use his observations of the activities of the biological creatures?
(a) To improve the laws and regulations regarding sea expeditions.
(b) To increase the public's awareness on marine life in Mexico.
(c) To understand and improve the human species.
(d) To improve the way people look at biological creatures.

2. What are the two types of biologists, as discussed by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts?
(a) Those who teach in the university and those who work for corporations.
(b) Those who work at night and those who work during the day.
(c) Those who study dead, preserved animals and those who study life in all its complexity.
(d) Those who have their own laboratory and those who rent a space for their laboratory works.

3. Where is the expedition party heading?
(a) They arre heading north to their destination.
(b) They arre heading west to their destination.
(c) They arre heading east to their destination.
(d) They are heading south to their destination.

4. What do Steinbeck and Ricketts do to Tiny's prey?
(a) They cut the meat and make a stew out of it.
(b) They cut the legs and collect them in a jar filled with water.
(c) They crack its shell and use it as soup bowls.
(d) They dissect it to learn what they can.

5. What scientific testing does Steinbeck intend to do on the liquor?
(a) Determine if the liquor can really substitute the engine fuel.
(b) Determine if his crew can drink the liquor instead of the water for two weeks.
(c) Test if the seawater will work well with the liquor.
(d) Determine if the aphrodisiac liquor really works.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of biologist is preferred by John Steinbeck?

2. What happens when Steinbeck and Ricketts photograph the bonito and other fish?

3. According to John Steinbeck, what does a rusting, disorderly boat with its pain peeling off indicate?

4. What does the expedition party observe about the town of San Lucas?

5. How does Steinbeck describe a scientist's reaction to death of a sea creature?

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