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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Robert.
(b) Frederick.
(c) Kiri.
(d) Mr. Condo.

2. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."
(a) Animal droppings.
(b) Animal hair.
(c) Animal breeding.
(d) Animal fossils.

3. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Peru.
(d) Italy.

4. Mark Carwardine states that the "________ is an incredibly complex system, but when you're actually standing in it, it looks half-empty."
(a) Flatlands.
(b) Primary rain forest.
(c) Grasslands.
(d) Tundra.

5. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that the Aye-aye is a ________ lemur.
(a) Amphibious.
(b) Nocturnal.
(c) Marsupial.
(d) Marine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.

3. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.

4. All of the following marine creatures are more poisonous than anything on land except for which of the following?

5. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?

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