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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Scotsman from DOC that accompanied Adams and Carwardine in the chapter,Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Bruce harris.
(b) Ron Tindall.
(c) Boss.
(d) Juan Carlos Cardenas.

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

3. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.
(a) French Territory.
(b) District of Columbia.
(c) Belgian Congo.
(d) Property of the United States.

4. What was the nearly extinct form of lemur called that Mark and Douglas went to search for in Twig Technology?
(a) Alaotran Gentle.
(b) Fat-Tailed Dwarf.
(c) Aye-aye.
(d) Ring-tailed.

5. What was the name of the benign man with the air of a vicar on-board the plane with Adams and Carwardine in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Carlos Weber.
(b) Bob Wyatt.
(c) Don Merton.
(d) Daniel Torres.

6. In Heartbeats in the Night, Douglas Adams wonders why so many words that describe what the sun does in the morning begin with the letters "________."
(a) Ma.
(b) Sa.
(c) GI.
(d) Be.

7. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?
(a) Ambohimahamasina.
(b) Sainte-Marie.
(c) Nosy Mangabe.
(d) Mahajanga.

8. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?
(a) Squirrel monkey.
(b) Kinkajou.
(c) Komodo dragon.
(d) White Lion.

9. Mark Carwardine explains that there are more _________ per square meter of ground on Komodo than in any equivalent area on earth.
(a) Poisonous frogs.
(b) Poisonous snakes.
(c) Poisonous wasps.
(d) Poisonous plants.

10. How many poachers does Murara claim to have shot dead?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

11. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?
(a) Moa.
(b) Dodo.
(c) Elephant birds.
(d) Kakapo.

12. According to the narrator in Twig Technology, in ________, by some sort of journalistic accident, the narrator went to look for an almost extinct animal.
(a) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1973.

13. Twig Technology says that the Kakapo lives in what country?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) New Guinea.
(c) New Finland.
(d) New Amsterdam.

14. A little-known fact revealed in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night, is that one of the more dangerous animals in Africa is the ________.
(a) Ostrich.
(b) Lava Mouse.
(c) Blue Antelope.
(d) Cape Warthog.

15. What was the name of the village in the foothills of the Virungas, which marks the point where the road finally gives up, and from which Adams and Carwardine had to travel on by foot?
(a) Eritrea.
(b) Djibouti.
(c) Bukima.
(d) Angola.

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. Douglas Adams states that the Kakapo is a bird that in some ways reminds him of the ________.

3. What term was used Heartbeats of the Night to describe an animal who doesn't like other animals?

4. What is the name of the mountain parrots that are very intelligent, with long curved beaks and distinctive wing beats in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?

5. What term did Adam heard bandied about by New Zealand zoologists, and they had bandied it about so casually that he did not want to say the he hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about?

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