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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sifting through the Embers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Adams, the term "fed up" actually comes from ________.
(a) Einstein.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Falconry.

2. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Sir Isaac Newton.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Archimedes.

3. Douglas Adams explains in the chapter Blind Panic that foreigners are not allowed to ________ in China.
(a) Work.
(b) Drive.
(c) Swim.
(d) Fish.

4. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.
(a) Republic of the Congo.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Nigeria.

5. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Advil.
(b) Band-aids.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Richard Lewis' profession?

2. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.

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. What term was used Heartbeats of the Night to describe an animal who doesn't like other animals?

5. What story once bothered Douglas Adams when he was young according to the chapter Sifting Through the Embers?

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