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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."
(a) Animal hair.
(b) Animal breeding.
(c) Animal droppings.
(d) Animal fossils.

2. Mark Carwardine explains that there are more _________ per square meter of ground on Komodo than in any equivalent area on earth.
(a) Poisonous snakes.
(b) Poisonous plants.
(c) Poisonous frogs.
(d) Poisonous wasps.

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

4. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?
(a) Chris Muir.
(b) Robert Giusti.
(c) John Fontana.
(d) Liu Renjun.

5. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as the ________.
(a) Cathay.
(b) Margarette.
(c) Ziva.
(d) Logan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Arab's specially-trained and muzzled dog?

2. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.

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

4. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.

5. 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?

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