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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mark's Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ________ nest is the first encouraging sign that the kakapo project is actually working according to Mark's Epilogue.
(a) Heather's.
(b) Jennifer's.
(c) Emma's.
(d) Sara's.

3. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."
(a) Heights.
(b) China.
(c) Flying.
(d) Spiders.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?

3. Adams expresses that if you took the whole of ________, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time, because it looks as if someone has already done it.

4. In November ________, Carl found a parakeet nest with three eggs inside.

5. Adams reveals that both Richard and Carl's first obsession was for ________.

(see the answer key)

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