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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. In what town did Adams and Carwardine discover that even when making internal flights in Zaire, you still had to go through the full rigmarole of immigration and customs controls all over again?
(a) Bandundu.
(b) Kinshasa.
(c) Goma.
(d) Kivu.

2. All of the following were on-board the twenty-three-foot fishing vessel in the chapter Here Be Chickens, except for which?
(a) Kiri.
(b) A goat.
(c) Four chickens.
(d) Two small boys.

3. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?
(a) Zaire.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Rwanda.

4. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?
(a) White Lion.
(b) Kinkajou.
(c) Squirrel monkey.
(d) Komodo dragon.

5. In Twig Technology, the narrator details how his airplane, full of ________ descendants arrived at ________ airport.
(a) Dutch / Narrabri.
(b) Monkey / Antananarivo.
(c) Christian / Inagua.
(d) German / Bubaque.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the village in the foothills of the Virungas, which marks the point where the road finally gives up, and from which Adams and Carwardine had to travel on by foot?

2. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.

3. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.

4. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?

5. Mark Carwardine states that the "________ is an incredibly complex system, but when you're actually standing in it, it looks half-empty."

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