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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Adams, what happens to all cats born in Labuan Bajo?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are sold on the black market.
(c) They are shipped to Europe.
(d) They have their tails docked.

2. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Nose.
(b) Upper lip.
(c) Left earlobe.
(d) Right forefinger.

3. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?
(a) Jean-Jacques Petter.
(b) Don Merton.
(c) Doreen Montgomery.
(d) Chen Peixun.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, where in Zaire do the mountain gorillas live?
(a) The Virunga Volcanoes.
(b) Amak Volcano.
(c) Cold Bay Volcano.
(d) Buldir Volcano.

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

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

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

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

9. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.
(a) Cat.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Dog.
(d) Pigeon.

10. Adams informs the reader that a young female gorilla called ________, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicemia in August 1988.
(a) Jozi.
(b) Tara.
(c) Niomi.
(d) Sydney.

11. The narrator explains in Twig Technology that monkeys are ambitious and interested in all sorts of things, especially ________, with which they found they could do all kinds of things that they couldn't do by themselves.
(a) Trees.
(b) Grass.
(c) Twigs.
(d) Rocks.

12. Who was the freelance Kakapo tracker working for the New Zealand Department of Conservation?
(a) Mike.
(b) Dobby.
(c) Arab.
(d) Zhou.

13. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Advil.
(b) Band-aids.
(c) Toothpaste.
(d) Guns.

14. What is the name of Arab's specially-trained and muzzled dog?
(a) Clifford.
(b) Rover.
(c) Boss.
(d) Meatloaf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?

2. Who was the photographer on the plane with Adams in Twig Technology?

3. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."

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

5. The first thing Adams and Carwardine saw in the Zaire customs hut was a picture of a ________.

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