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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What nationality does James Wait claim to be in Chapter 2?
(a) German.
(b) Canadian.
(c) American.
(d) Irish.

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

4. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?
(a) He wins it at the casino.
(b) It is loaned to him from a relative.
(c) He inherites the money.
(d) It is loaned to him from the bank.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What make and model vehicle does Hernando Cruz drive?

3. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?

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

5. According to the narrator, what are the people of the Galapagos Islands only tool?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the Bahia De Darwin to the Beagle.

2. In a desperate attempt to keep his passengers from canceling their cruise on the Bahia, what does Bobby King do?

3. Describe the city of Guayaquil as it is described in Chapter 1.

4. In Chapter 9, what is Roy Hepburn's dying compared to? Explain.

5. How do people describe their brains in Chapter 6?

6. Summarize James Wait's childhood as it is described in Chapter 3.

7. What two promises does Roy Hepburn ask his wife to keep on his deathbed?

8. Discuss the three examples the narrator uses to show how people can become independent from their parents.

9. Compare and contrast the Galapagos Islands back in 1986 A.D. to a million years later.

10. Give two theories that are discussed for how animals arrived on the Galapagos Islands.

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