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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. Douglas Adams informs the reader that every other shop in Zaire is a ________.
(a) Bakery.
(b) Grocery store.
(c) Pharmacie.
(d) Gas station.

2. Adams and Carwardine entered the Tiananmen Square on ________.
(a) January 1982.
(b) October 1988.
(c) July 1990.
(d) August 1972.

3. According to Adams in the first sentence of chapter Blind Panic, ________ are the things you don't know you're making.
(a) Procrastination.
(b) Excuses.
(c) Assumptions.
(d) Lies.

4. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?
(a) The long-fingered possum.
(b) Echidna.
(c) Capybara.
(d) Okapi.

5. Mark explains that, "There are so many threatened animals around the world that, at the rate of ________ every ________ weeks, it would have taken Douglas and me more than three hundred years to search for them all."
(a) 2 / 10.
(b) 1 / 3.
(c) 3 / 3.
(d) 90 / 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following people are mentioned in the book Last Chance to See, except for who?

2. According to Adams, who was a field researcher in Goma who has for years been responsible for gorilla conservation work in the area.

3. Mark Carwardine explains that ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands in their ________.

4. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?

5. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.

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