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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. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.
(a) Simpering / lonely.
(b) Warbling / sad.
(c) Yoddeling / scared.
(d) Rousing / relaxed.

2. Who was the narrator in Last Chance to See?
(a) Mark Carwardine.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Alain le Garsmeur.
(d) Chris Muir.

3. Who is the Zaire's ex-colonial master?
(a) The Canadians.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Belgians.
(d) The Irish.

4. Adams explains that once, before New Zealand was inhabited by humans, there were hundreds of thousands of ________.
(a) Komodo dragons.
(b) Kakapos.
(c) Kias.
(d) Aye-ayes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?

2. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.

3. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.

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

5. Who was the warden of Little Barrier Island?

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