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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Heartbeats in the Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mark Carwardine explains that there are more _________ per square meter of ground on Komodo than in any equivalent area on earth.
(a) Poisonous wasps.
(b) Poisonous snakes.
(c) Poisonous plants.
(d) Poisonous frogs.

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

3. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Upper lip.
(b) Nose.
(c) Right forefinger.
(d) Left earlobe.

4. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Romance fiction.
(d) Science fiction.

5. Douglas Adams reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.
(a) Houses.
(b) Buildings.
(c) Animals.
(d) Cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.

2. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.

3. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?

4. Douglas Adams informs the reader that every other shop in Zaire is a ________.

5. What term was used Heartbeats of the Night to describe an animal who doesn't like other animals?

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