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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mark's Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Uganda.

3. Who was the premier expert on the endangered baiji described as a polite, kindly man about 60 years old, working at Nanjing University?
(a) Dr. Hillman-Smith.
(b) Jurgen Langer.
(c) Professor Zhou.
(d) Ros Aveling.

4. What term describes the process by which the bird cleans its beak of meat after eating, by rubbing it along a branch?
(a) Feeking.
(b) Brooding.
(c) Grooming.
(d) Sleuthing.

5. ________ nest is the first encouraging sign that the kakapo project is actually working according to Mark's Epilogue.
(a) Emma's.
(b) Heather's.
(c) Sara's.
(d) Jennifer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Zaire's ex-colonial master?

2. Mark Carwardine explains that the ________, which was once the most common bird that ever lived on earth was hunted to extinction in little more than fifty years.

3. The narrator states in the chapter Here Be Chickens, "I knew that if I were a mariner in unknown waters, the first thing I would write on my charts at this moment would be 'Here Be ________.'"

4. According to Adams in Twig Technology, Antananarivo is pronounced ________.

5. Adams states in chapter Blind Panic that everyone in China rides ________.

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