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

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

3. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?
(a) Elephant birds.
(b) Dodo.
(c) Moa.
(d) Kakapo.

4. What bird in the chapter Heartbeats in the Night does Adams say he was destined never to find out anything more about while on his way to the warden's lodge?
(a) The Peregrine Falcon.
(b) The White-cheeked Bulbul.
(c) The Emu.
(d) The little blue penguin.

5. According to Adams, there are ________ Northern White rhinoceros in Czechoslovakia.
(a) 21.
(b) 8.
(c) 90.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the beginning of Twig Technology, the narrator reveals that he went to what country?

3. What is the name of the mountain parrots that are very intelligent, with long curved beaks and distinctive wing beats in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?

4. 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?

5. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?

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