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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. What film footage did Mary Hepburn show her students when she lectured on the Galapagos Islands at Ilium High School?
(a) The courtship dance of the finches.
(b) The courtship dance of the red-footed boobies.
(c) The courtship dance of the blue-footed boobies.
(d) The courtship dance of the waved albatross.

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

3. Including Wait, how many guests are staying at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) 53.
(b) 6.
(c) 100.
(d) 2.

4. Who has become deaf after the explosion in Chapter 36?
(a) Mandarax.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Adolf von Kleist.
(d) Siegfried von Kleist.

5. What did the narrator do in his sleep when he was alive?
(a) Sleep walk.
(b) Wet the bed.
(c) Sleep eat.
(d) Sleep talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.

2. 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?

3. What branch of military had Roy served in?

4. The narrator's mother could do all of the following dance forms except which one?

5. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?

(see the answer key)

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