View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Twig Technology, the narrator reveals that he went to what country?
(a) Mindanao.
(b) Madagascar.
(c) Bali.
(d) New Guinea.

2. All of the following marine creatures are more poisonous than anything on land except for which of the following?
(a) Barracuda.
(b) Scorpion fish.
(c) Stonefish.
(d) Sea snakes.

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

4. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.
(a) Brown Recluse.
(b) Sydney Funnel-web.
(c) Tarantulas.
(d) Black Widow.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator states in the chapter Here Be Chickens, "I knew that if I were a mariner in unknown waters, the first thing I would write on my charts at this moment would be 'Here Be ________.'"

3. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.

4. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.

5. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 228 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample