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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rare, or Medium Rare?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Richard in Rare, or Medium Rare, there are no interesting birds on Reunion because ________.
(a) The French shot them all.
(b) They are all extinct.
(c) There are no trees there.
(d) Reunion is uninhabitable.

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

3. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.
(a) 90.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 21.

4. A little-known fact revealed in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night, is that one of the more dangerous animals in Africa is the ________.
(a) Cape Warthog.
(b) Blue Antelope.
(c) Ostrich.
(d) Lava Mouse.

5. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.
(a) Russians.
(b) French.
(c) Germans.
(d) Dutch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?

2. 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.

3. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?

4. The Chapter Rare, or Medium Rare states that in the Indian Ocean on an island called Mauritius there was a very rare bird, perhaps the rarest of all ________, called the Mauritius Kestrel.

5. ________, 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.

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