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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. The narrator's mother could do all of the following dance forms except which one?
(a) The Waltz.
(b) The Jitterbug.
(c) The Lindy hop.
(d) Disco.

2. Who can talk to animals?
(a) Roy.
(b) Leon.
(c) Selena.
(d) Mary.

3. Where do Panama hats come from?
(a) Panama.
(b) Madagascar.
(c) Guyana.
(d) Ecuador.

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

5. What two names are left off the Bahia passenger list as a matter of delicacy?
(a) Selena MacIntosh and Kazakh.
(b) Roy and Mary Hepburn.
(c) James Wait and Willard Flemming.
(d) Andrew and Selena MacIntosh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator's mom once told him that he had the blood of a ________ noblemen flowing through his veins.

3. To whom does Andrew MacIntosh reveal his real reason for flying Selena, Kazakh, and the Hiroguchis from Merida to Guayaquil?

4. Who is Leon Trout?

5. What animal is not found on the Galapagos Islands?

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