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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. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?
(a) Dr. Struan Sutherland.
(b) Dr. Jean Astruc.
(c) Dr. Charles R. Drew.
(d) Dr. Christiaan Barnard

2. Mark Carwardine said in Twig Technology that the Ambassador in ________ promised that the Ministry of Agriculture would be able to give them two Land Rovers and a helicopter.
(a) Boaco.
(b) Bissau.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Bakki.

3. Who was an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist who was working at that time for the World Wildlife Fund?
(a) Gaynor.
(b) Kiri.
(c) Mark Carwardine.
(d) Douglas Adams.

4. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.
(a) Tarantulas.
(b) Black Widow.
(c) Sydney Funnel-web.
(d) Brown Recluse.

5. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.
(a) Waste.
(b) Noise.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. Adams reveals that both Richard and Carl's first obsession was for ________.

5. All of the following were on-board the twenty-three-foot fishing vessel in the chapter Here Be Chickens, except for which?

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