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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Heartbeats in the Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Here Be Chickens, room service told Adams and Carwardine that the ________ would be a handy thing to have when looking for man-eating lizards.
(a) Bow and arrow.
(b) Tomahawk.
(c) Pepper spray.
(d) Cricket bat.

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

3. Where are the Northern White rhinos located, according to Adams and Carwardine?
(a) Zaire.
(b) Zambia.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) Swaziland.

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

5. What is the name of the mountain parrots that are very intelligent, with long curved beaks and distinctive wing beats in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Gray-necked Rockfowl.
(b) Bird-of-Paradise.
(c) The Kea.
(d) Congo Peafowl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the BBC producer who recorded Adams and Carwardine's exploits for a radio documentary series?

2. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.

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

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

5. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?

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