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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of the benign man with the air of a vicar on-board the plane with Adams and Carwardine in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Daniel Torres.
(b) Don Merton.
(c) Bob Wyatt.
(d) Carlos Weber.

4. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1977.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that once, before New Zealand was inhabited by humans, there were hundreds of thousands of ________.

2. What guide did Adams and Carwardine expect to have in the chapter Here Be Chickens?

3. Bill Black claims he has flown in Fiordland for ________ years.

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

5. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?

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