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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through April 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will be an accurate description of the expedition party's day on March 23?
(a) Rewarding.
(b) A day of many discoveries.
(c) Strange and difficult.
(d) Warm and comfortable.

2. What does Steinbeck notice about the sense of time of the local people of Cabo San Lucas?
(a) It seems so different from their own.
(b) It is reversed, sleeping during the day and working during the night.
(c) There is nothing different about their sense of time and that of the indigents'.
(d) They seem to all walk faster, indicating that they have a faster sense of time.

3. What feeling does the expedition party have as they leave Angeles Bay?
(a) Everyone in the team feels that they have finally found the best place to conduct scientific experiments in Angeles Bay.
(b) Everybody on the team feels that they are interfering with some illicit activity.
(c) The team members feel as if they belong in Angeles Bay and do not like to leave.
(d) The team members feel like their stay in Angeles Bay was cut short because of the presence of the Americans and Mexicans.

4. What do Steinbeck and Ricketts do to Tiny's prey?
(a) They dissect it to learn what they can.
(b) They cut the legs and collect them in a jar filled with water.
(c) They cut the meat and make a stew out of it.
(d) They crack its shell and use it as soup bowls.

5. What does Sparky collect to give to his friends back at home?
(a) Very beautiful oyster pearls.
(b) Very beautiful sand dollars.
(c) Very beautiful snail shells.
(d) Very beautiful starfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Steinbeck and Ricketts encounter when they go for a walk in the dark?

2. What is interesting about the bonito and other fish that caught Steinbeck and Ricketts' attention?

3. Which sea creature frightens Tiny?

4. Why is the crew unable to collect many specimens on the day following Easter Sunday?

5. There is a struggle for scraps and morsels of food.Who are the participants in the struggle?

(see the answer key)

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