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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. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.
(a) Property of the United States.
(b) French Territory.
(c) Belgian Congo.
(d) District of Columbia.

2. Other than Madagascar, where else does the Aye-aye live?
(a) Australia.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Africa.

3. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?
(a) Cameroon.
(b) Rwanda.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Zaire.

4. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."
(a) Animal hair.
(b) Animal droppings.
(c) Animal fossils.
(d) Animal breeding.

5. Mark Carwardine states that the "________ is an incredibly complex system, but when you're actually standing in it, it looks half-empty."
(a) Primary rain forest.
(b) Tundra.
(c) Flatlands.
(d) Grasslands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mark Carwardine explains that the best way to catch a Komodo dragon is to have a ________ that has been dead for ________ days.

2. According to Adams, who was a field researcher in Goma who has for years been responsible for gorilla conservation work in the area.

3. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?

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

5. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?

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