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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Adams details that the gateway to the Forbidden City, the ________ Gate, is where the great iconic portrait of Chairman Mao gazed out across the vastness of the Tiananmen Square.
(a) Brandenburg.
(b) Tiananmen.
(c) Heaven's.
(d) Golden.

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

5. 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) 1492.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1588.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat informs the reader that by the ________ independence movements were sweeping across Africa.

2. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that he flew thirteen hours from ________ to Madagascar.

3. Mark Carwardine said in Twig Technology that the Ambassador in ________ promised that the Ministry of Agriculture would be able to give them two Land Rovers and a helicopter.

4. According to the agent at the Merpati Airlines, there were ________ people booked on Adams and Carwardine's return flight to Bali.

5. Which two people meet Adams and Carwardine at the airport who are described as small, willowy-slim, healthy looking Indonesians?

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