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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."
(a) 1789.
(b) 1588.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1492.

2. Douglas Adams informs the reader that every other shop in Zaire is a ________.
(a) Grocery store.
(b) Bakery.
(c) Gas station.
(d) Pharmacie.

3. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Bonita.
(b) Raodah.
(c) Allegro.
(d) Castaway.

4. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Right forefinger.
(b) Upper lip.
(c) Left earlobe.
(d) Nose.

5. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?
(a) Deserts.
(b) Tundras.
(c) Rain Forests.
(d) Grasslands.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?

2. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.

3. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as the ________.

4. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that the Aye-aye is a ________ lemur.

5. What term used in Rare, or Medium Rare describes when a bird hatches from its egg and falls in love with the first thing that feeds it?

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