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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the village in the foothills of the Virungas, which marks the point where the road finally gives up, and from which Adams and Carwardine had to travel on by foot?
(a) Bukima.
(b) Eritrea.
(c) Angola.
(d) Djibouti.

2. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Peru.

3. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."
(a) Animal droppings.
(b) Animal fossils.
(c) Animal breeding.
(d) Animal hair.

4. Adams informs the reader that "Moose" was short for ________.
(a) Tineka Jawana.
(b) Amadeus.
(c) Hieronymus.
(d) Shasmecka.

5. Other than Madagascar, where else does the Aye-aye live?
(a) Australia.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Africa.

6. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.
(a) Belgian Congo.
(b) French Territory.
(c) District of Columbia.
(d) Property of the United States.

7. In Here Be Chickens, room service told Adams and Carwardine that the ________ would be a handy thing to have when looking for man-eating lizards.
(a) Cricket bat.
(b) Tomahawk.
(c) Pepper spray.
(d) Bow and arrow.

8. Adams explains that once, before New Zealand was inhabited by humans, there were hundreds of thousands of ________.
(a) Komodo dragons.
(b) Kakapos.
(c) Kias.
(d) Aye-ayes.

9. In what town did Adams and Carwardine discover that even when making internal flights in Zaire, you still had to go through the full rigmarole of immigration and customs controls all over again?
(a) Goma.
(b) Kivu.
(c) Kinshasa.
(d) Bandundu.

10. 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?
(a) Checks and balances.
(b) Convergent evolution.
(c) Track and bowl system.
(d) Dashed unit ball.

11. In Twig Technology, the narrator details how his airplane, full of ________ descendants arrived at ________ airport.
(a) Dutch / Narrabri.
(b) Christian / Inagua.
(c) German / Bubaque.
(d) Monkey / Antananarivo.

12. According to Adams, there are ________ Northern White rhinoceros in Czechoslovakia.
(a) 8.
(b) 90.
(c) 57.
(d) 21.

13. ________, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the southwest corner of South Island, ________, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, according to Douglas Adams.
(a) Machu Picchu / Peru.
(b) Great Barrier Reef / Australia.
(c) Cape Town / South Africa.
(d) Fiordland / New Zealand.

14. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.
(a) Indian Cobra / Australia.
(b) Northern Rubber Boa / Asia.
(c) Tiger Rattlesnake / Africa.
(d) Western Cottonmouth / United States.

15. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Romance fiction.
(d) Historical fiction.

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. All of the following marine creatures are more poisonous than anything on land except for which of the following?

3. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, where in Zaire do the mountain gorillas live?

5. Who was the BBC producer who recorded Adams and Carwardine's exploits for a radio documentary series?

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