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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Boaco.
(b) Bakki.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Bissau.

2. What guide did Adams and Carwardine expect to have in the chapter Here Be Chickens?
(a) Gary "Arab" Aburn.
(b) Mr. Condo.
(c) Boss.
(d) Bill Black.

3. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?
(a) Doreen Montgomery.
(b) Jean-Jacques Petter.
(c) Don Merton.
(d) Chen Peixun.

4. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Sir Isaac Newton.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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) 1588.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

1. Twig Technology says that the Kakapo lives in what country?

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

3. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.

4. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.

5. Who was the photographer on the plane with Adams in Twig Technology?

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