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

2. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.
(a) 8.
(b) 90.
(c) 21.
(d) 2.

3. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?
(a) Okapi.
(b) Echidna.
(c) The long-fingered possum.
(d) Capybara.

4. Mark explains that, "There are so many threatened animals around the world that, at the rate of ________ every ________ weeks, it would have taken Douglas and me more than three hundred years to search for them all."
(a) 3 / 3.
(b) 2 / 10.
(c) 90 / 8.
(d) 1 / 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.

2. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?

3. According to Richard in Rare, or Medium Rare, there are no interesting birds on Reunion because ________.

4. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.

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

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