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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, who was a field researcher in Goma who has for years been responsible for gorilla conservation work in the area.
(a) Chen Peixun.
(b) Bill Peabody.
(c) David Pratt.
(d) Conrad Aveling.

2. Mark explains that, "There are so many threatened animals around the world that, at the rate of ________ every ________ weeks, it would have taken Douglas and me more than three hundred years to search for them all."
(a) 1 / 3.
(b) 2 / 10.
(c) 3 / 3.
(d) 90 / 8.

3. Douglas Adams states that the Kakapo is a bird that in some ways reminds him of the ________.
(a) Brazilian martial art industry.
(b) British motorbike industry.
(c) Irish alcohol industry.
(d) American tourist industry.

4. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?
(a) White Lion.
(b) Squirrel monkey.
(c) Kinkajou.
(d) Komodo dragon.

5. Mark Carwardine explains that there are more _________ per square meter of ground on Komodo than in any equivalent area on earth.
(a) Poisonous frogs.
(b) Poisonous snakes.
(c) Poisonous wasps.
(d) Poisonous plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Adams in Twig Technology, Antananarivo is pronounced ________.

2. The narrator states in the chapter Here Be Chickens, "I knew that if I were a mariner in unknown waters, the first thing I would write on my charts at this moment would be 'Here Be ________.'"

3. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?

4. Where are the Northern White rhinos located, according to Adams and Carwardine?

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

(see the answer key)

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