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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sifting through the Embers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After being rejected by the townsmen for the second time, the old beggar woman burned how many more books?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. What was the strange person carrying with them in the beginning of the story the Sibylline books?
(a) 22 Bibles.
(b) 12 large books.
(c) 5 green apples.
(d) 3 bags of gold.

3. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.
(a) Drowned princess.
(b) Bronze monkey.
(c) Golden calf.
(d) Golden Minx.

4. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a quarter of her books?
(a) 4 sacks of gold.
(b) 3 sacks of diamonds.
(c) 4 sacks of diamonds.
(d) 9 sacks of diamonds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?

2. Carl Jones expresses that he hates ________ in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

3. What story once bothered Douglas Adams when he was young according to the chapter Sifting Through the Embers?

4. Who was an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist who was working at that time for the World Wildlife Fund?

5. Adams explains that all the history of China is symbolically focused at the ________.

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