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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 5-Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the body of water named in honor of Charles Darwin?
(a) The Darwin River.
(b) The Bay of Charles.
(c) The Darwin Bay.
(d) The Darwin Stream.

2. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
(a) Spain.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) England.
(d) France.

3. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Galileo.

4. What is James Wait's native city?
(a) Reading.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Midland City.
(d) Akron.

5. What is the capital of Ecuador?
(a) Guayaquil.
(b) Quito.
(c) Tulcán.
(d) Guaranda.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?

2. Who is Willard Flemming?

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

4. Where do Panama hats come from?

5. What is ikebana?

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