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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blind Panic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the two stereotypically superior, young German tourists in Zaïre who go with Adams and Carwardine on their search for mountain gorillas?
(a) Helmut and Kurt.
(b) Kes and Fraser.
(c) Arab and Zhou.
(d) Murara and Serundori.

2. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that he flew thirteen hours from ________ to Madagascar.
(a) Paris.
(b) Germany.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) London.

3. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?
(a) Sainte-Marie.
(b) Nosy Mangabe.
(c) Ambohimahamasina.
(d) Mahajanga.

4. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."
(a) 1789.
(b) 1588.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1773.

5. What is the name of the mountain parrots that are very intelligent, with long curved beaks and distinctive wing beats in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) The Kea.
(b) Congo Peafowl.
(c) Bird-of-Paradise.
(d) Gray-necked Rockfowl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the warden's wife on Little Barrier Island's?

2. What was the name of the benign man with the air of a vicar on-board the plane with Adams and Carwardine in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?

3. Adams expresses that if you took the whole of ________, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time, because it looks as if someone has already done it.

4. What was the name of the Scotsman from DOC that accompanied Adams and Carwardine in the chapter,Heartbeats in the Night?

5. What bird in the chapter Heartbeats in the Night does Adams say he was destined never to find out anything more about while on his way to the warden's lodge?

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