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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. Twig Technology declared that there are less than ________ Northern White rhinos left, and there's a desperate battle going on to save them from the poachers.
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

2. How many poachers does Murara claim to have shot dead?
(a) 9.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

3. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.
(a) Tiger Rattlesnake / Africa.
(b) Northern Rubber Boa / Asia.
(c) Indian Cobra / Australia.
(d) Western Cottonmouth / United States.

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

5. According to the narrator in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, where in Zaire do the mountain gorillas live?
(a) Cold Bay Volcano.
(b) Amak Volcano.
(c) Buldir Volcano.
(d) The Virunga Volcanoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the charming man with a squarish face, a shock of wavy black hair, and a thick black mustache that sat on his lip like a bar of chocolate?

2. 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.

3. According to Adams, what species is one of man's closest living relatives?

4. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?

5. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."

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