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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 Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.
(a) Flying fox.
(b) Dwarf lemur.
(c) Indri.
(d) Woodpeckers.

2. 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) Bob Wyatt.
(b) Don Merton.
(c) Daniel Torres.
(d) Carlos Weber.

3. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Guns.
(b) Band-aids.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Advil.

4. According to the narrator in Twig Technology, in ________, by some sort of journalistic accident, the narrator went to look for an almost extinct animal.
(a) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1973.

5. The chapter Blind Panic explains that the baiji dolphin was first discovered in ________.
(a) Baiyangdian Lake.
(b) Xingkai Lake.
(c) Dong Ting Lake.
(d) Lugu Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?

2. Adams states in chapter Blind Panic that everyone in China rides ________.

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

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

5. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?

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