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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. The narrator states in the chapter Here Be Chickens, "I knew that if I were a mariner in unknown waters, the first thing I would write on my charts at this moment would be 'Here Be ________.'"
(a) Dragons.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Goats.
(d) Monkeys.

2. ________, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the southwest corner of South Island, ________, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, according to Douglas Adams.
(a) Machu Picchu / Peru.
(b) Cape Town / South Africa.
(c) Fiordland / New Zealand.
(d) Great Barrier Reef / Australia.

3. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Castaway.
(b) Bonita.
(c) Allegro.
(d) Raodah.

4. What was the name of the brilliant, but mad Welshman in his late 30s, who loves birds to the point of obsession?
(a) Richard Lewis.
(b) Peter Guzzardi.
(c) Bill Black.
(d) Carl Jones.

5. According to Adams, there are ________ Northern White rhinoceros in Czechoslovakia.
(a) 57.
(b) 90.
(c) 21.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ are the white trails along cliffs where a bird has been sitting, according to chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

2. Mark Carwardine said in Twig Technology that the Ambassador in ________ promised that the Ministry of Agriculture would be able to give them two Land Rovers and a helicopter.

3. According to the narrator in Twig Technology, in ________, by some sort of journalistic accident, the narrator went to look for an almost extinct animal.

4. According to Richard Lewis, how many echo parakeets are there in the wild?

5. Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat informs the reader that by the ________ independence movements were sweeping across Africa.

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