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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 390.
(d) 90.

2. What animal does not breed well in captivity, according to Carwardine in Mark's Epilogue?
(a) Kinkajous.
(b) Three Toed Box turtles.
(c) Savannah Monitors.
(d) Northern White rhino.

3. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?
(a) January 3, 1933.
(b) June 18, 1812.
(c) October 1, 1949.
(d) July 21, 1823.

4. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."
(a) 1789.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1588.
(d) 1773.

5. What does DOC stand for as it relates to the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Documentation of Compliance.
(b) Department of Conservation.
(c) Department of Corrections.
(d) Department of Commerce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than Madagascar, where else does the Aye-aye live?

2. According to Adams in the first sentence of chapter Blind Panic, ________ are the things you don't know you're making.

3. What was the name of the two smooth characters dressed in military camouflage and black berets, who slouched across the table languidly caressing their rifles in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?

4. On Little Barrier Island, several of the males there had been booming for the first time, including a nine-year-old called ________, according to Mark's Epilogue.

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

(see the answer key)

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