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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 35-Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Donald?
(a) The captain of the Bahia.
(b) A golden retriever that Roy tied to a stake.
(c) Mary Heburn's first husband.
(d) Mary and Roy Hepburn's cat.

2. How many foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 19.
(d) 3.

3. How does the narrator die?
(a) A brain tumor.
(b) He died of old age.
(c) He was ate by a shark.
(d) He was beheaded.

4. What year was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1492.

5. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?
(a) Impotent.
(b) Magical.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Mundane.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mary Hepburn wearing when she arrives at the Hotel El Dorado?

3. What was the narrator's father's occupation?

4. What book does Roy make Mary get while he lays in his deathbed?

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

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