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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.
(a) French Territory.
(b) Property of the United States.
(c) District of Columbia.
(d) Belgian Congo.

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

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.
(a) Sweden.
(b) Finland.
(c) Norway.
(d) Greenland.

4. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.
(a) Germany.
(b) Peru.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

5. According to Adams, what happens to all cats born in Labuan Bajo?
(a) They are shipped to Europe.
(b) They have their tails docked.
(c) They are sold on the black market.
(d) They are killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the premier expert on the endangered baiji described as a polite, kindly man about 60 years old, working at Nanjing University?

2. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?

3. A unique feature revealed by Adams about the baiji is that it is half ________.

4. In what town did Adams and Carwardine discover that even when making internal flights in Zaire, you still had to go through the full rigmarole of immigration and customs controls all over again?

5. Carwardine told Adams before going to bed in the chapter, Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, to turn his boots upside-down and shake them in the morning for what reason?

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