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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 the agent at the Merpati Airlines, there were ________ people booked on Adams and Carwardine's return flight to Bali.
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

2. In what decade did Madagascar manage to divest themselves from French rule?
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 1950's.
(d) 1980's.

3. Adams informs the reader that "Moose" was short for ________.
(a) Hieronymus.
(b) Amadeus.
(c) Shasmecka.
(d) Tineka Jawana.

4. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.
(a) Woodpeckers.
(b) Flying fox.
(c) Indri.
(d) Dwarf lemur.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?

3. According to Adams in Twig Technology, Antananarivo is pronounced ________.

4. All of the following were on-board the twenty-three-foot fishing vessel in the chapter Here Be Chickens, except for which?

5. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that he flew thirteen hours from ________ to Madagascar.

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