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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. 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) Feeking.
(c) Grooming.
(d) Brooding.

2. A guest house or small hotel in Indonesia is called a ________.
(a) Penthouse.
(b) Losmen.
(c) Cabin.
(d) Hostel.

3. 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.
(a) Cricket bat.
(b) Pepper spray.
(c) Bow and arrow.
(d) Tomahawk.

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

5. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.
(a) Tarantulas.
(b) Black Widow.
(c) Brown Recluse.
(d) Sydney Funnel-web.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the BBC producer who recorded Adams and Carwardine's exploits for a radio documentary series?

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

3. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.

4. Who was the charming man with a squarish face, a shock of wavy black hair, and a thick black mustache that sat on his lip like a bar of chocolate?

5. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.

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