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

2. How does the narrator die?
(a) He was ate by a shark.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) He died of old age.
(d) He was beheaded.

3. What is the name of the ship that Darwin took on a mapping expedition that would take him completely around the world and would last five years?
(a) The Bronco.
(b) The Beetle.
(c) The Beagle.
(d) The Bangle.

4. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?
(a) Domingo Quezeda.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Andrew MackIntosh.

5. What other subject did Mary Hepburn teach at Ilium High School?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Physical education.
(c) Human sexuality.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many wives has James Wait had?

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

4. Including Wait, how many guests are staying at the Hotel El Dorado?

5. How many species of finch are on the Island of Santa Rosalia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who stated, "The dry and parched surface, being heated by the noon-day sun, gave to the air a close and sultry feeling, like that from a stove: we fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly?" What is this statement in reference to?

4. Who discovered the Galapagos Islands in 1535 A.D.?

5. In what way is Mary Hepburn "Mother Nature Personified?"

6. Compare and contrast Mandarax to Gokubi.

7. When does Adolf von Kleist tell Mary Hepburn that he might be a carrier of Huntington's chorea?

8. Describe the Hotel El Dorado.

9. Does Mary Hepburn want to go to the Galapagos Islands? Explain.

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

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