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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. Where are the Northern White rhinos located, according to Adams and Carwardine?
(a) Zaire.
(b) Zambia.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) Swaziland.

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

3. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."
(a) China.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Heights.
(d) Flying.

4. In November ________, Carl found a parakeet nest with three eggs inside.
(a) 1991.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1984.

5. When Adams wrote Last Chance to See, there were ________ human beings on earth.
(a) 10 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 5 billion.
(d) 2 trillion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the baiji dolphin first discovered, according to Adams in chapter Blind Panic?

2. 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 ________.'"

3. What does Adams claim to be the most famous of all the animals on Mauritius?

4. Mark Carwardine explains that the ________, which was once the most common bird that ever lived on earth was hunted to extinction in little more than fifty years.

5. Adams reveals that both Richard and Carl's first obsession was for ________.

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