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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Adams details that the gateway to the Forbidden City, the ________ Gate, is where the great iconic portrait of Chairman Mao gazed out across the vastness of the Tiananmen Square.
(a) Heaven's.
(b) Brandenburg.
(c) Tiananmen.
(d) Golden.

2. 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.
(a) Old beggar woman.
(b) Hairless child.
(c) Toothless man.
(d) Dirty witch.

3. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?
(a) Endemic species.
(b) Threatened species.
(c) Endangered species.
(d) Exotic species.

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

5. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?
(a) Grasslands.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Tundras.
(d) Rain Forests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas Adams explains in the chapter Blind Panic that foreigners are not allowed to ________ in China.

2. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.

3. Adams and Carwardine entered the Friendship Store in the chapter Blind Panic to purchase what item?

4. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a quarter of her books?

5. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the title Sifting Through the Embers?

2. What two odd things did Adams find about the music he heard while in China? Explain.

3. What is Mark Carwardine's response to the question: "Was this really our last chance to see these animals?"

4. Describe and identify Pink as detailed in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

5. What is Mark Carwardine's response to the question: "Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?"

6. What has since happened to the Northern White rhinos in Zaire as detailed by Kes Hillman-Smith in the chapter Mark's Epilogue?

7. Analyze one of the problems with breeding birds in captivity.

8. What was the very rare bird on the island Mauritius? Describe this bird.

9. What two distinctive sounds in China does Adams encounter in the chapter Blind Panic?

10. Explain Carl Jones's character according to Adams in Rare, or Medium Rare.

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