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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 13-Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary Hepburn wearing when she arrives at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) A silk formal dress.
(b) A cheeta print dress.
(c) Jeans and a tank top.
(d) U.S. Marine Corps combat fatigues.

2. How does Mary Hepburn die?
(a) She has a brain tumor.
(b) She falls overboard the Bahia.
(c) A great white shark eats her.
(d) She commits suicide.

3. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) Domingo Quezeda.
(d) Andrew MackIntosh.

4. Who has claimed to have been exposed to radiation when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?
(a) Hisako Hiroguchi.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) Selena MacIntosh.
(d) Willard Flemming.

5. Who is considered to be wild and greedy and inconsiderate, but not insane?
(a) Hernando Cruz.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Andrew MacIntosh.
(d) Mary Hepburn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?

2. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?

3. How many years does it take the Bahia to sink?

4. What is the name of the Ecuadorian currency that has become worth less than a banana peel?

5. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?

(see the answer key)

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