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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Here Be Chickens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Douglas Adams, there are ________ species of lemurs on Madagascar.
(a) 200.
(b) 1000.
(c) 21.
(d) 49.

2. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?
(a) The long-fingered possum.
(b) Okapi.
(c) Capybara.
(d) Echidna.

3. All of the following were on-board the twenty-three-foot fishing vessel in the chapter Here Be Chickens, except for which?
(a) A goat.
(b) Four chickens.
(c) Kiri.
(d) Two small boys.

4. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Allegro.
(b) Castaway.
(c) Bonita.
(d) Raodah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Adams in Twig Technology, Antananarivo is pronounced ________.

2. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.

3. According to the narrator in Twig Technology, in ________, by some sort of journalistic accident, the narrator went to look for an almost extinct animal.

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

5. According to the agent at the Merpati Airlines, there were ________ people booked on Adams and Carwardine's return flight to Bali.

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