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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rare, or Medium Rare?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Adams, what happens to all cats born in Labuan Bajo?
(a) They have their tails docked.
(b) They are shipped to Europe.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are sold on the black market.

2. What was the name of the brilliant, but mad Welshman in his late 30s, who loves birds to the point of obsession?
(a) Bill Black.
(b) Peter Guzzardi.
(c) Richard Lewis.
(d) Carl Jones.

3. Adams reveals that both Richard and Carl's first obsession was for ________.
(a) Television.
(b) Birds.
(c) Appearance..
(d) Shoes.

4. What term used in Rare, or Medium Rare describes when a bird hatches from its egg and falls in love with the first thing that feeds it?
(a) Polymorphisim.
(b) Genus.
(c) Radula.
(d) Imprinting.

5. ________, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the southwest corner of South Island, ________, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, according to Douglas Adams.
(a) Great Barrier Reef / Australia.
(b) Machu Picchu / Peru.
(c) Fiordland / New Zealand.
(d) Cape Town / South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.

2. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?

3. Which two people meet Adams and Carwardine at the airport who are described as small, willowy-slim, healthy looking Indonesians?

4. According to Adams, the term "fed up" actually comes from ________.

5. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."

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