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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 29-Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What war did the narrator fight in?
(a) World War II.
(b) Cold War.
(c) Vietnam War.
(d) Civil War.

2. What is the language of the majority on Santa Rosalia?
(a) Chinese.
(b) English.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Kanka-bono.

3. What animal is Mary Hepburn hallucinating to be while suffocating herself?
(a) A blue-footed booby.
(b) A chameleon.
(c) A snake.
(d) A land tortoise.

4. What subject is Adolf von Kleist interest in?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Global warming.
(c) Meteorites.
(d) Baseball.

5. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?
(a) Seigfried von Kleist.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Adolf von Kleist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?

2. Who has a stuffed Galapagos marine iguana on his desk?

3. Who is considered the ancestor of every human being on the face of the earth and the Captain of the Bahia?

4. What subject did Mary Hepburn teach at the public high school in Ilium, New York?

5. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?

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