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

2. What was the name of the benign man with the air of a vicar on-board the plane with Adams and Carwardine in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Carlos Weber.
(b) Daniel Torres.
(c) Bob Wyatt.
(d) Don Merton.

3. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?
(a) Don Merton.
(b) Chen Peixun.
(c) Doreen Montgomery.
(d) Jean-Jacques Petter.

4. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.
(a) 390.
(b) 20.
(c) 90.
(d) 40.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, where in Zaire do the mountain gorillas live?
(a) Amak Volcano.
(b) The Virunga Volcanoes.
(c) Buldir Volcano.
(d) Cold Bay Volcano.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. All of the following are names of the Kakapos on the Little Barrier Island, except for which of the following?

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

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

5. The evolutionary change that passed Madagascar by was the arrival of the ________.

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