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

2. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?
(a) They kill cats.
(b) They breed.
(c) They eat and sleep.
(d) They kill alligators.

3. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.
(a) Northern Rubber Boa / Asia.
(b) Tiger Rattlesnake / Africa.
(c) Western Cottonmouth / United States.
(d) Indian Cobra / Australia.

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) Lava Mouse.
(b) Cape Warthog.
(c) Blue Antelope.
(d) Ostrich.

5. Bill Black claims he has flown in Fiordland for ________ years.
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 32.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term describes the process by which the bird cleans its beak of meat after eating, by rubbing it along a branch?

2. Adams and Carwardine went to Rodrigues Island to look for what animal?

3. Adams informs the reader that "Moose" was short for ________.

4. What term did Adam heard bandied about by New Zealand zoologists, and they had bandied it about so casually that he did not want to say the he hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about?

5. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.

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