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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. What was a mining product used in producing t toothpaste, iron and steel casting, and also as an additive for pig food?
(a) Menthol.
(b) Xylitol.
(c) Fluoride.
(d) Bentonite.

2. 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 Emu.
(b) The little blue penguin.
(c) The White-cheeked Bulbul.
(d) The Peregrine Falcon.

3. What term did Adam heard bandied about by New Zealand zoologists, and they had bandied it about so casually that he did not want to say the he hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about?
(a) Track and bowl system.
(b) Checks and balances.
(c) Dashed unit ball.
(d) Convergent evolution.

4. Adams expresses that if you took the whole of ________, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time, because it looks as if someone has already done it.
(a) Norway.
(b) Greenland.
(c) Finland.
(d) Sweden.

5. Adams and Carwardine entered the Tiananmen Square on ________.
(a) January 1982.
(b) August 1972.
(c) October 1988.
(d) July 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?

2. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.

3. In Here Be Chickens, room service told Adams and Carwardine that the ________ would be a handy thing to have when looking for man-eating lizards.

4. 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?

5. Adams and Carwardine entered the Friendship Store in the chapter Blind Panic to purchase what item?

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