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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Adams informs the reader that a young female gorilla called ________, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicemia in August 1988.
(a) Sydney.
(b) Tara.
(c) Niomi.
(d) Jozi.

2. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Band-aids.
(b) Guns.
(c) Advil.
(d) Toothpaste.

3. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.
(a) Dwarf lemur.
(b) Woodpeckers.
(c) Indri.
(d) Flying fox.

4. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that he flew thirteen hours from ________ to Madagascar.
(a) New Zealand.
(b) London.
(c) Germany.
(d) Paris.

5. ________ is on the island of Flores and is the nearest port to Komodo.
(a) Labuan Bajo.
(b) Marajó.
(c) Sulawesi.
(d) Borneo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?

2. All of the following marine creatures are more poisonous than anything on land except for which of the following?

3. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.

4. Douglas Adams reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.

5. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."

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