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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 21-Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company is automating the Bahia and also employs Zenji Hiroguchi?
(a) GEFFCo.
(b) Sony.
(c) Matsumoto.
(d) Mitsumi.

2. What is the name of the archipelago of volcanic peaks due west of Guayaquil?
(a) The Fiji Islands.
(b) The Kuril Islands.
(c) The Solomon Islands.
(d) The Galapagos Islands.

3. What is the name given to the moment when the beaks of the blue-footed boobies are pointed in the direction exactly opposite to the pull of gravity?
(a) Sky-Pointing.
(b) Beak-Pointing.
(c) Blue-Love.
(d) Heart-Forming.

4. What bird is a teaser and a robber of the blue-footed boobies?
(a) The frigate.
(b) The waved albatrosses.
(c) The penguin.
(d) The blue heron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two names are left off the Bahia passenger list as a matter of delicacy?

2. According to the narrator, what made marriage so difficult?

3. Another theory is given that the animals on the Galapagos Islands had been shooed ashore two by two down the plank of __________.

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

5. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?

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