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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in Twig Technology, in ________, by some sort of journalistic accident, the narrator went to look for an almost extinct animal.
(a) 1990.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1988.

3. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Raodah.
(b) Bonita.
(c) Allegro.
(d) Castaway.

4. Who was the warden of Little Barrier Island?
(a) Dobby.
(b) Mark.
(c) Skip.
(d) Arab.

5. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following are names of the Kakapos on the Little Barrier Island, except for which of the following?

2. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.

3. Mark's Epilogue explains that for millions of years, on average, ________ species became extinct every century.

4. Mark Carwardine explains that the best way to catch a Komodo dragon is to have a ________ that has been dead for ________ days.

5. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?

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