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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. What important object is missing from the Bahia?
(a) The figurehead.
(b) The hull.
(c) The anchor.
(d) The helm.

2. Who says: "I love you so much. Please marry me. I'm so lonesome. I'm so scared."
(a) Madarax.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Kamikaze.

3. What is Guillermo Reyes's rocket compared to in Chapter 34?
(a) The flightless penguin.
(b) The great land torotise.
(c) The colorful chameleon.
(d) The dancing blue-footed booby.

4. Whose wife did James Wait have sexual relations with when he was still in Midland City, Ohio?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Dwayne Hoover.
(c) Leon Trout.
(d) Willard Flemming.

5. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?
(a) To help each other.
(b) To gain knowledge.
(c) To find cures to diseases.
(d) To work until they die.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was head of the English Department at Ilium High School who had proposed marriage to Mary Hepburn?

2. At what age did James Wait become a sire?

3. What is the language of the majority on Santa Rosalia?

4. What is the theory behind people with more of a streamlined skull?

5. What secret does Mary Hepburn keep from the Captain in Book 2: Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Siegfried von Kleist dance in Chapter 37?

2. According to the narrator, are there anymore left handed people in the world? Explain.

3. Why does James Wait tell Mary Hepburn to call him by his first name? By what name does Mary call James?

4. What does the cancellation of "the Nature Cruise of the Century" mean to everyone in the bus in front of the Hotel El Dorado?

5. How is Prince Richard murdered? Who kills him?

6. Who does Akiko name one of her daughters after? Explain.

7. When does Mary Hepburn begin her artificial insemination program? How old is she at the time?

8. How does Quezeda feed his brain's thirst for self-esteem and alcohol?

9. What is the story behind Selena MacIntosh's blindness?

10. In the Captain's story he shares with Akiko, how are lobsters much like humans?

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