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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.
(a) Sock.
(b) Rubber-over.
(c) Safety glove.
(d) Love glove.

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

3. According to Mark Carwardine, a staggering ________ have been found and identified so far.
(a) 9.5 million.
(b) 1 billion.
(c) 1.4 million.
(d) 200,000.

4. Adams and Carwardine entered the Tiananmen Square on ________.
(a) August 1972.
(b) July 1990.
(c) January 1982.
(d) October 1988.

5. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.
(a) Golden calf.
(b) Golden Minx.
(c) Drowned princess.
(d) Bronze monkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.

2. Who wrote Douglas and Mark a letter soon after they returned to England about the kakapo's slow road to recovery?

3. Adams explains that once, before New Zealand was inhabited by humans, there were hundreds of thousands of ________.

4. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?

5. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.

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