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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. Twig Technology says that the Kakapo lives in what country?
(a) New Amsterdam.
(b) New Finland.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) New Guinea.

2. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.
(a) Rubber-over.
(b) Love glove.
(c) Safety glove.
(d) Sock.

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

4. Adams explains that when you spend time on islands with naturalists, you will tend to hear two words frequently. To what two words does Adams refer?
(a) Threatened and endangered.
(b) Poachers and hunters.
(c) Endemic and exotic.
(d) Tame and wild.

5. In Twig Technology, the narrator details how his airplane, full of ________ descendants arrived at ________ airport.
(a) Christian / Inagua.
(b) Dutch / Narrabri.
(c) Monkey / Antananarivo.
(d) German / Bubaque.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as the ________.

2. Who was the warden of Little Barrier Island?

3. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.

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

5. 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?

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