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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.
(a) Brown Recluse.
(b) Tarantulas.
(c) Black Widow.
(d) Sydney Funnel-web.

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

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

4. Mark Carwardine states that the "________ is an incredibly complex system, but when you're actually standing in it, it looks half-empty."
(a) Grasslands.
(b) Tundra.
(c) Primary rain forest.
(d) Flatlands.

5. Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat informs the reader that by the ________ independence movements were sweeping across Africa.
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1950's.
(c) 1980's.
(d) 1970's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mark Carwardine explains that the best way to catch a Komodo dragon is to have a ________ that has been dead for ________ days.

2. Who is the Zaire's ex-colonial master?

3. The narrator states in the chapter Here Be Chickens, "I knew that if I were a mariner in unknown waters, the first thing I would write on my charts at this moment would be 'Here Be ________.'"

4. Douglas Adams reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.

5. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?

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