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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 reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.
(a) Houses.
(b) Animals.
(c) Cars.
(d) Buildings.

2. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

3. According to Douglas Adams, there are ________ species of lemurs on Madagascar.
(a) 1000.
(b) 49.
(c) 21.
(d) 200.

4. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?
(a) Elephant birds.
(b) Dodo.
(c) Kakapo.
(d) Moa.

5. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.
(a) District of Columbia.
(b) Property of the United States.
(c) Belgian Congo.
(d) French Territory.

Short Answer 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?

2. According to the narrator in Twig Technology, in ________, by some sort of journalistic accident, the narrator went to look for an almost extinct animal.

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

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

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

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