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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Heartbeats in the Night, Douglas Adams wonders why so many words that describe what the sun does in the morning begin with the letters "________."
(a) Sa.
(b) Be.
(c) GI.
(d) Ma.

2. The first thing Adams and Carwardine saw in the Zaire customs hut was a picture of a ________.
(a) Komodo dragon.
(b) Leopard.
(c) Aye-aye.
(d) Baiji river dolphin.

3. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.
(a) Salt.
(b) Cinnamon.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Sugar.

4. Douglas Adams reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.
(a) Cars.
(b) Buildings.
(c) Houses.
(d) Animals.

5. In the chapter Blind Panic, Adams and Carwardine made a diversion to see an ________ farm, from which they got chased by police on the grounds that they didn't have appropriate permits.
(a) Alligator.
(b) Pig.
(c) Fish.
(d) Dolphin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.

2. According to a disturbing letter received by Douglas and Mark from a couple who had been working in China, the couple says that they ate ________.

3. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."

4. 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?

5. In the beginning of Twig Technology, the narrator reveals that he went to what country?

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