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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.
(a) Chicago.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Midland.
(d) Charlotte.

2. What did Mary Hepburn's husband, Roy, die from?
(a) Alcohol poisoning.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) A broken heart.
(d) A gunshot wound.

3. What happened to Adolf's parents?
(a) They got lost at sea.
(b) They were killed by a meteorite.
(c) They were murdered.
(d) They moved to the Galapagos Islands.

4. What magazine does Andrew MacIntosh read from cover to cover every month?
(a) Forbes Magazine.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) Times Magazine.
(d) Reader's Digest.

5. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?
(a) Red-footed boobies.
(b) Geospiza difficilis.
(c) Peacocks.
(d) Pink Flamingos.

6. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Bahia de Navidad.
(b) The Bahia de Caraquez Ecuador.
(c) The Bahia de Darwin.
(d) The Bahia de Santander.

7. What was the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) A science-fiction writer.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A biology teacher.
(d) A pastry chef.

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

9. What branch of military had Roy served in?
(a) The Army.
(b) The Marines.
(c) The Airforce.
(d) The Navy.

10. In Chapter 26, where does the Captain devise his emergency plan for the Bahia?
(a) In the shower.
(b) In the sauna.
(c) In the ocean.
(d) In the garden.

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

12. Who is the 35-year-old American male who could not swim a stroke, who intended to get from the South American continent to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(d) James Wait.

13. 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) Beak-Pointing.
(b) Heart-Forming.
(c) Blue-Love.
(d) Sky-Pointing.

14. What television show does the Captain of the Bahia appear on?
(a) The Today Show.
(b) The Tonight Show.
(c) Regis and Kelly.
(d) Jay Leno.

15. Who coined the term "biology?"
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Gottfried Treveranus.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Charles Darwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kazakh?

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

3. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?

4. Mary Hepburn whispers, "You are my enemy. Why would I want to carry such a terrible enemy inside of me?" What is she referring to?

5. What is the name of the body of water named in honor of Charles Darwin?

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