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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mark's Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the spectacular remnant of the days when Shanghai was one of the most glamorous and cosmopolitan ports in the world?
(a) The Hampton Hotel.
(b) The Peace Hotel.
(c) The Hilton Hotel.
(d) The Four Seasons Hotel.

2. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 21.
(d) 90.

3. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.
(a) Hit zero.
(b) Increased to over 50.
(c) Stayed the same.
(d) Dropped to fewer than 10.

4. What was the nearly extinct form of lemur called that Mark and Douglas went to search for in Twig Technology?
(a) Ring-tailed.
(b) Alaotran Gentle.
(c) Aye-aye.
(d) Fat-Tailed Dwarf.

5. Who was the freelance Kakapo tracker working for the New Zealand Department of Conservation?
(a) Arab.
(b) Dobby.
(c) Mike.
(d) Zhou.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the two stereotypically superior, young German tourists in Zaïre who go with Adams and Carwardine on their search for mountain gorillas?

2. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?

3. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.

4. All of the following are names of the Kakapos on the Little Barrier Island, except for which of the following?

5. 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.

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