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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 expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Republic of the Congo.
(d) Ethiopia.

2. What guide did Adams and Carwardine expect to have in the chapter Here Be Chickens?
(a) Boss.
(b) Bill Black.
(c) Gary "Arab" Aburn.
(d) Mr. Condo.

3. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.
(a) Pigeon.
(b) Dog.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Cat.

4. Mark Carwardine said in Twig Technology that the Ambassador in ________ promised that the Ministry of Agriculture would be able to give them two Land Rovers and a helicopter.
(a) Boaco.
(b) Bakki.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Bissau.

5. Other than Madagascar, where else does the Aye-aye live?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) Nowhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.

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

4. The narrator explains in Twig Technology that monkeys are ambitious and interested in all sorts of things, especially ________, with which they found they could do all kinds of things that they couldn't do by themselves.

5. Adams informs the reader that a young female gorilla called ________, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicemia in August 1988.

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