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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Ecuadorian currency that has become worth less than a banana peel?
(a) Euro.
(b) Franc.
(c) Dollar.
(d) Sucre.

2. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?
(a) At the bar.
(b) On a cruise.
(c) At the dance studio.
(d) On the streets.

3. How many years does it take the Bahia to sink?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

5. Who owns the Bahia?
(a) A pair of old German brothers.
(b) A pair of young German brothers.
(c) A pair of young German sisters.
(d) A pair of old German sisters.

6. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Ballroom.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Contemporary.
(d) Salsa.

7. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?
(a) April 1, 1986.
(b) November 28, 1986.
(c) July 4, 1986.
(d) January 1, 1986.

8. 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) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Charles Darwin.

9. What extra credit response did Noble Claggett turn in to Mary Hepburn that stayed with her until the day she died?
(a) A novel.
(b) A portrait.
(c) A song.
(d) A poem.

10. The Bahia is technically a ship designed for ________.
(a) Scuba diving.
(b) Cargo.
(c) Fishing.
(d) War.

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

12. How many children does Hernando Cruz have?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 11.

13. Who befriended Wait after he ran away from home and taught him how to be a successful homosexual prostitute?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A cop.
(c) A waiter.
(d) A pimp.

14. How many children do the Hepburn's have?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

15. In what year was the last human marriage in the Galapagos Islands performed?
(a) 23011.
(b) 20000.
(c) 1802.
(d) 2012.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?

2. When does Siegfried von Kleist die?

3. How many cruise ships have their port in Guayaquil?

4. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?

5. Who is considered to be wild and greedy and inconsiderate, but not insane?

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