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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the two smooth characters dressed in military camouflage and black berets, who slouched across the table languidly caressing their rifles in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Zhou and Aartee.
(b) Ros and Roberto.
(c) Murara and Serundori.
(d) Boss and Conrad.

2. The evolutionary change that passed Madagascar by was the arrival of the ________.
(a) Lions.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Cats.
(d) Monkeys.

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

4. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.
(a) Waste.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Water.
(d) Noise.

5. Douglas Adams explains in the chapter Blind Panic that foreigners are not allowed to ________ in China.
(a) Fish.
(b) Swim.
(c) Work.
(d) Drive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?

3. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."

4. Adams informs the reader that a young female gorilla called ________, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicemia in August 1988.

5. Other than Madagascar, where else does the Aye-aye live?

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