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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. Who was the BBC producer who recorded Adams and Carwardine's exploits for a radio documentary series?
(a) Zhou Kaiya.
(b) Gary "Arab" Aburn.
(c) Michael Green.
(d) Gaynor Shutte.

2. Chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat asserts that the other ________ are the gorillas, of which there are ________ subspecies.
(a) Exotic Apes / 9.
(b) Great Apes / 3.
(c) Albino Apes / 6.
(d) Threatened Apes / 2.

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.
(a) 1985.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1988.

4. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?
(a) Sainte-Marie.
(b) Nosy Mangabe.
(c) Ambohimahamasina.
(d) Mahajanga.

5. Who is the Zaire's ex-colonial master?
(a) The Canadians.
(b) The Irish.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Belgians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term did Adam heard bandied about by New Zealand zoologists, and they had bandied it about so casually that he did not want to say the he hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about?

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

4. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.

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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