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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?
(a) Cameroon.
(b) Uganda.
(c) Rwanda.
(d) Zaire.
2. In the beginning of Twig Technology, the narrator reveals that he went to what country?
(a) Mindanao.
(b) Madagascar.
(c) Bali.
(d) New Guinea.
3. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?
(a) Elephant birds.
(b) Dodo.
(c) Kakapo.
(d) Moa.
4. What was the name of the Scotsman from DOC that accompanied Adams and Carwardine in the chapter,Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Juan Carlos Cardenas.
(b) Ron Tindall.
(c) Bruce harris.
(d) Boss.
5. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.
6. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.
(a) Chicken.
(b) Dog.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Cat.
7. 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) GI.
(c) Sa.
(d) Be.
8. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?
(a) Squirrel monkey.
(b) White Lion.
(c) Kinkajou.
(d) Komodo dragon.
9. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?
(a) Chris Muir.
(b) John Fontana.
(c) Liu Renjun.
(d) Robert Giusti.
10. Who knows more about Kakapos than anyone else in the world, according to Adams?
(a) Doreen Montgomery.
(b) Don Merton.
(c) Chen Peixun.
(d) Jean-Jacques Petter.
11. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.
(a) Sydney Funnel-web.
(b) Black Widow.
(c) Tarantulas.
(d) Brown Recluse.
12. 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?
(a) Track and bowl system.
(b) Convergent evolution.
(c) Dashed unit ball.
(d) Checks and balances.
13. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Raodah.
(b) Castaway.
(c) Allegro.
(d) Bonita.
14. Who was the charming man with a squarish face, a shock of wavy black hair, and a thick black mustache that sat on his lip like a bar of chocolate?
(a) Kiri.
(b) Mr. Condo.
(c) Frederick.
(d) Robert.
15. 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) Belgian Congo.
(b) Property of the United States.
(c) District of Columbia.
(d) French Territory.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the Zaire's ex-colonial master?
2. According to the narrator in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, where in Zaire do the mountain gorillas live?
3. What does DOC stand for as it relates to the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
4. What is the name of the warden's wife on Little Barrier Island's?
5. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.
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