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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a single book at the end of Sifting Through the Embers?
(a) 6 sacks of gold.
(b) 20 sacks of diamonds.
(c) 16 sacks of gold.
(d) 10 sacks of diamonds.

2. Who was the premier expert on the endangered baiji described as a polite, kindly man about 60 years old, working at Nanjing University?
(a) Professor Zhou.
(b) Dr. Hillman-Smith.
(c) Jurgen Langer.
(d) Ros Aveling.

3. Mark's Epilogue explains that for millions of years, on average, ________ species became extinct every century.
(a) 1.
(b) 20.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

4. What was Richard Lewis' profession?
(a) Paleontologist.
(b) Neurologist.
(c) Ornithologist
(d) Zoologist.

5. What was the name of the Mauritius kestrel who was in love with Carl Jones?
(a) Flappy.
(b) Pink.
(c) Tweetie.
(d) Blue.

6. What was the name of the non-round island near Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean?
(a) Victoria Island.
(b) Kodiak Island.
(c) Baffin Island.
(d) Round Island.

7. What was the name of the nearly extinct animal living in the Yangtze River that Adams and Carwardine searching for in Blind Panic?
(a) The Tucuxi.
(b) The Northern Rightwhale Dolphin.
(c) The Irrawaddy Dolphin.
(d) The Baiji.

8. 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?
(a) Genus.
(b) Polymorphisim.
(c) Radula.
(d) Imprinting.

9. Mark Carwardine explains that the ________, which was once the most common bird that ever lived on earth was hunted to extinction in little more than fifty years.
(a) Chinese Water Dragons.
(b) Passenger pigeon.
(c) Flying Squirrels.
(d) African Clawed Frogs.

10. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.
(a) Safety glove.
(b) Love glove.
(c) Rubber-over.
(d) Sock.

11. According to Adams in the first sentence of chapter Blind Panic, ________ are the things you don't know you're making.
(a) Procrastination.
(b) Assumptions.
(c) Lies.
(d) Excuses.

12. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.
(a) Sugar.
(b) Salt.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Cinnamon.

13. Adams and Carwardine entered the Friendship Store in the chapter Blind Panic to purchase what item?
(a) Condoms.
(b) Souvenirs.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Aftershave.

14. Who was the narrator in Last Chance to See?
(a) Mark Carwardine.
(b) Alain le Garsmeur.
(c) Douglas Adams.
(d) Chris Muir.

15. According to a disturbing letter received by Douglas and Mark from a couple who had been working in China, the couple says that they ate ________.
(a) Three Kakapos.
(b) Two Baiji Dolphins.
(c) One Northern White Rhino.
(d) Two Aye-aye lemurs.

Short Answer Questions

1. A unique feature revealed by Adams about the baiji is that it is half ________.

2. Who wrote Douglas and Mark a letter soon after they returned to England about the kakapo's slow road to recovery?

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

4. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.

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

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