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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.
(a) Northern Rubber Boa / Asia.
(b) Tiger Rattlesnake / Africa.
(c) Western Cottonmouth / United States.
(d) Indian Cobra / Australia.

2. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1971.

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

4. In the beginning of Twig Technology, the narrator reveals that he went to what country?
(a) New Guinea.
(b) Madagascar.
(c) Bali.
(d) Mindanao.

5. What does DOC stand for as it relates to the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Department of Conservation.
(b) Documentation of Compliance.
(c) Department of Commerce.
(d) Department of Corrections.

6. A guest house or small hotel in Indonesia is called a ________.
(a) Penthouse.
(b) Hostel.
(c) Cabin.
(d) Losmen.

7. What term was used Heartbeats of the Night to describe an animal who doesn't like other animals?
(a) Shy creature.
(b) Bashful creature.
(c) Lonely creature.
(d) Solitary creature.

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

9. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."
(a) 1789.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1588.

10. 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) Lava Mouse.
(b) Cape Warthog.
(c) Blue Antelope.
(d) Ostrich.

11. Who is said to be one of the most experienced helicopter pilots in the world, according to the narrator?
(a) Richard Lewis.
(b) Craig Hodsell.
(c) Bill Black.
(d) Terry Greene.

12. What was the name of the two smooth characters dressed in military camouflage and black berets, who slouched across the table languidly caressing their rifles in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Ros and Roberto.
(b) Murara and Serundori.
(c) Boss and Conrad.
(d) Zhou and Aartee.

13. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?
(a) Liu Renjun.
(b) Robert Giusti.
(c) John Fontana.
(d) Chris Muir.

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

15. Carwardine told Adams before going to bed in the chapter, Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, to turn his boots upside-down and shake them in the morning for what reason?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Ticks.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Scorpions.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Twig Technology declared that there are less than ________ Northern White rhinos left, and there's a desperate battle going on to save them from the poachers.

3. ________ is on the island of Flores and is the nearest port to Komodo.

4. Adams expresses that if you took the whole of ________, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time, because it looks as if someone has already done it.

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

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