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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mark's Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Heartbeats in the Night, Douglas Adams wonders why so many words that describe what the sun does in the morning begin with the letters "________."
(a) GI.
(b) Be.
(c) Sa.
(d) Ma.

2. What term did Adam heard bandied about by New Zealand zoologists, and they had bandied it about so casually that he did not want to say the he hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about?
(a) Checks and balances.
(b) Convergent evolution.
(c) Dashed unit ball.
(d) Track and bowl system.

3. ________ is on the island of Flores and is the nearest port to Komodo.
(a) Marajó.
(b) Labuan Bajo.
(c) Sulawesi.
(d) Borneo.

4. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.
(a) Hit zero.
(b) Increased to over 50.
(c) Dropped to fewer than 10.
(d) Stayed the same.

5. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?
(a) They kill cats.
(b) They eat and sleep.
(c) They kill alligators.
(d) They breed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.

2. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that the Aye-aye is a ________ lemur.

3. Who wrote Douglas and Mark a letter soon after they returned to England about the kakapo's slow road to recovery?

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.

5. Where are the Northern White rhinos located, according to Adams and Carwardine?

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