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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. 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 fossils.
(c) Animal breeding.
(d) Animal droppings.

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) Arab and Zhou.
(b) Murara and Serundori.
(c) Helmut and Kurt.
(d) Kes and Fraser.

3. Which two people meet Adams and Carwardine at the airport who are described as small, willowy-slim, healthy looking Indonesians?
(a) Kiri and Moose.
(b) Bill and Scout.
(c) Stella and Liam.
(d) Tori and Dean.

4. In the beginning of Twig Technology, the narrator reveals that he went to what country?
(a) Bali.
(b) Mindanao.
(c) Madagascar.
(d) New Guinea.

5. 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) Boss and Conrad.
(c) Ros and Roberto.
(d) Murara and Serundori.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the BBC producer who recorded Adams and Carwardine's exploits for a radio documentary series?

2. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.

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

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

5. In Twig Technology, the narrator details how his airplane, full of ________ descendants arrived at ________ airport.

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