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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The trips found in Last Chance to See were recorded for ________.
(a) PBS.
(b) Discovery Channel.
(c) Animal Planet.
(d) BBC radio.

2. According to Richard Lewis, how many echo parakeets are there in the wild?
(a) 200.
(b) 7438.
(c) 15.
(d) 1000.

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

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

5. ________ are the white trails along cliffs where a bird has been sitting, according to chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.
(a) Whelp.
(b) Streak.
(c) Mutes.
(d) Troops.

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

7. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.
(a) Rousing / relaxed.
(b) Yoddeling / scared.
(c) Simpering / lonely.
(d) Warbling / sad.

8. What animal does not breed well in captivity, according to Carwardine in Mark's Epilogue?
(a) Kinkajous.
(b) Savannah Monitors.
(c) Three Toed Box turtles.
(d) Northern White rhino.

9. What term describes the process by which the bird cleans its beak of meat after eating, by rubbing it along a branch?
(a) Sleuthing.
(b) Grooming.
(c) Feeking.
(d) Brooding.

10. What does Adams claim to be the most famous of all the animals on Mauritius?
(a) Gentle dove.
(b) Bush baby.
(c) Aardvark.
(d) Meerkat.

11. After being rejected by the townsmen for the second time, the old beggar woman burned how many more books?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

12. What was the name of the sugar estate's elderly gatekeeper and eccentric Mauritian who would not let anybody through his gate without a permit?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Jeff.
(c) John.
(d) James.

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

14. Mark Carwardine explains that ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands in their ________.
(a) Toes.
(b) Ears.
(c) Wrists.
(d) Tails.

15. Adams and Carwardine also received a letter from Kes Hillman-Smith in Zaire, saying that ________ baby Northern White rhinos had been born in Garamba since they left, bringing the total population up to ________.
(a) 8 / 20.
(b) 4 / 8.
(c) 10 / 11.
(d) 3 / 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the spectacular remnant of the days when Shanghai was one of the most glamorous and cosmopolitan ports in the world?

2. Don Merton phoned Carwardine to tell him that a newly made kakapo nest had been found on ________.

3. The story in the chapter Sifting Through the Embers details a summer, when the people of the city were busy thriving and prospering, a strange ________ arrived at the gates.

4. Adams and Carwardine entered the Tiananmen Square on ________.

5. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.

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