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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through March 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two types of biologists, as discussed by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts?
(a) Those who have their own laboratory and those who rent a space for their laboratory works.
(b) Those who teach in the university and those who work for corporations.
(c) Those who study dead, preserved animals and those who study life in all its complexity.
(d) Those who work at night and those who work during the day.

2. Where does the expedition party go on the morning of March 23, Black Saturday?
(a) San Diego Bay.
(b) Magdalena Bay.
(c) La Luz Bay.
(d) San Jose Island.

3. What does the expedition party do on March 22, Good Friday?
(a) They sell their collection to those who are interested.
(b) They spend the whole day with their relatives and friends whom they visited in La Paz.
(c) They put on their good clothes and go to services in an old church in La Paz.
(d) They stay on the boat, not wanting to create noise in the city.

4. What does the expedition party find when they finally landed on the shores of San Jose Island?
(a) Coal, gold and several precious stones.
(b) Fire-rings, fuel, clam and turtle shells.
(c) Several ladies with leis waiting for them.
(d) Several other outboard motors to replace the one they have.

5. What does the expedition party use instead of the tide chart to watch the rise and fall of the tides?
(a) A marked stick.
(b) Ricketts' compass.
(c) Steinbeck's journal.
(d) A sailor's watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the expedition party do on their first night at sea?

2. What instrument does Raul use, which Steinbeck and Ricketts buy from him?

3. What do members of the party feel when they are the one manning the wheel?

4. How long does Tex suffer through the diet exercise?

5. Why is the tide chart no longer usable?

(see the answer key)

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