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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Adams, what species is one of man's closest living relatives?
(a) Lemur.
(b) Mountain gorilla.
(c) Orangutan.
(d) Gibbon.

2. 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) Murara and Serundori.
(b) Ros and Roberto.
(c) Boss and Conrad.
(d) Zhou and Aartee.

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

4. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.
(a) Waste.
(b) Water.
(c) Noise.
(d) Smoke.

5. On Little Barrier Island, several of the males there had been booming for the first time, including a nine-year-old called ________, according to Mark's Epilogue.
(a) Skipper.
(b) Snark.
(c) Bisquit.
(d) Andi.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Here Be Chickens, room service told Adams and Carwardine that the ________ would be a handy thing to have when looking for man-eating lizards.

2. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.

3. According to a letter Carwardine received, at 08.45 hours on ________, one of the dog handlers, Alan Munn, and his English Setter, 'Ari' located a new female kakapo near Lees Knob.

4. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?

5. What guide did Adams and Carwardine expect to have in the chapter Here Be Chickens?

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