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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the mountain parrots that are very intelligent, with long curved beaks and distinctive wing beats in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Congo Peafowl.
(b) Bird-of-Paradise.
(c) Gray-necked Rockfowl.
(d) The Kea.

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

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.
(a) Twigs.
(b) Grass.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Trees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as the ________.

2. ________ are the white trails along cliffs where a bird has been sitting, according to chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

3. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?

4. In the chapter Blind Panic, Adams and Carwardine made a diversion to see an ________ farm, from which they got chased by police on the grounds that they didn't have appropriate permits.

5. The Chapter Rare, or Medium Rare states that in the Indian Ocean on an island called Mauritius there was a very rare bird, perhaps the rarest of all ________, called the Mauritius Kestrel.

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