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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. Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat informs the reader that by the ________ independence movements were sweeping across Africa.
(a) 1950's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 1980's.
(d) 1960's.

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

3. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.
(a) Western Cottonmouth / United States.
(b) Indian Cobra / Australia.
(c) Tiger Rattlesnake / Africa.
(d) Northern Rubber Boa / Asia.

4. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?
(a) Dr. Jean Astruc.
(b) Dr. Christiaan Barnard
(c) Dr. Charles R. Drew.
(d) Dr. Struan Sutherland.

5. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Zaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?

2. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.

3. In what town did Adams and Carwardine discover that even when making internal flights in Zaire, you still had to go through the full rigmarole of immigration and customs controls all over again?

4. According to Adams, what species is one of man's closest living relatives?

5. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.

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