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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. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.
(a) Hit zero.
(b) Dropped to fewer than 10.
(c) Stayed the same.
(d) Increased to over 50.

2. 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) Passenger pigeon.
(b) African Clawed Frogs.
(c) Chinese Water Dragons.
(d) Flying Squirrels.

3. A unique feature revealed by Adams about the baiji is that it is half ________.
(a) Reptile.
(b) Deaf.
(c) Blind.
(d) Amphibian.

4. According to a letter Carwardine received, at 08.45 hours on ________, one of the dog handlers, Alan Munn, and his English Setter, 'Ari' located a new female kakapo near Lees Knob.
(a) November 9, 1998.
(b) August 25, 1989.
(c) July 24, 1977.
(d) September 4, 1999.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Adams and Carwardine need to buy a condom in chapter Blind Panic?

2. According to Adams, the term "fed up" actually comes from ________.

3. After being rejected by the townsmen for the second time, the old beggar woman burned how many more books?

4. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?

5. What was the name of the man who gets passengers in his Land Rover to answer questions by watching them rather than the dangerous road until they respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. Analyze the letter Douglas and Mark received from Andy Roberts in the chapter, Mark's Epilogue.

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

3. What occurs when they send the old beggar woman away?

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

5. Explain how Round Island has remained a refuge for unique species as described in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

6. Explain what happened to the Passenger pigeon according to Mark Carwardine.

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

8. What does the note in the hotel's directory of guest services state according to Adams in the chapter Blind Panic?

9. Define the term "exotic species." Explain why a disaster usually is the result when species is introduced from abroad.

10. According to the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare, what happened to Reunion Island? Explain.

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