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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Here Be Chickens.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?
(a) Ambohimahamasina.
(b) Sainte-Marie.
(c) Nosy Mangabe.
(d) Mahajanga.

3. Twig Technology says that the Kakapo lives in what country?
(a) New Amsterdam.
(b) New Guinea.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) New Finland.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the BBC producer who recorded Adams and Carwardine's exploits for a radio documentary series?

3. ________ is on the island of Flores and is the nearest port to Komodo.

4. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.

5. Who was the charming man with a squarish face, a shock of wavy black hair, and a thick black mustache that sat on his lip like a bar of chocolate?

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