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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rare, or Medium Rare?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Adams explains that all the history of China is symbolically focused at the ________.
(a) Summer Palace.
(b) Reed Flute Cave.
(c) Tiananmen Square.
(d) Great Wall.

2. What term was used Heartbeats of the Night to describe an animal who doesn't like other animals?
(a) Shy creature.
(b) Bashful creature.
(c) Solitary creature.
(d) Lonely creature.

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

4. What was Richard Lewis' profession?
(a) Zoologist.
(b) Paleontologist.
(c) Ornithologist
(d) Neurologist.

5. What was the name of the Mauritius kestrel who was in love with Carl Jones?
(a) Tweetie.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue.
(d) Flappy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the brilliant, but mad Welshman in his late 30s, who loves birds to the point of obsession?

3. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?

4. What was the nearly extinct form of lemur called that Mark and Douglas went to search for in Twig Technology?

5. Douglas Adams states that the Kakapo is a bird that in some ways reminds him of the ________.

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