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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the two stereotypically superior, young German tourists in Zaïre who go with Adams and Carwardine on their search for mountain gorillas?
(a) Murara and Serundori.
(b) Helmut and Kurt.
(c) Arab and Zhou.
(d) Kes and Fraser.

2. According to the agent at the Merpati Airlines, there were ________ people booked on Adams and Carwardine's return flight to Bali.
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. 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) Dashed unit ball.
(b) Convergent evolution.
(c) Checks and balances.
(d) Track and bowl system.

4. ________, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the southwest corner of South Island, ________, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, according to Douglas Adams.
(a) Machu Picchu / Peru.
(b) Great Barrier Reef / Australia.
(c) Fiordland / New Zealand.
(d) Cape Town / South Africa.

5. According to Adams, what species is one of man's closest living relatives?
(a) Lemur.
(b) Mountain gorilla.
(c) Gibbon.
(d) Orangutan.

6. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?
(a) Capybara.
(b) The long-fingered possum.
(c) Echidna.
(d) Okapi.

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) GI.
(b) Be.
(c) Ma.
(d) Sa.

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

9. 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) Grass.
(b) Trees.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Twigs.

10. Chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat asserts that the other ________ are the gorillas, of which there are ________ subspecies.
(a) Albino Apes / 6.
(b) Great Apes / 3.
(c) Threatened Apes / 2.
(d) Exotic Apes / 9.

11. 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.

12. The first thing Adams and Carwardine saw in the Zaire customs hut was a picture of a ________.
(a) Leopard.
(b) Aye-aye.
(c) Baiji river dolphin.
(d) Komodo dragon.

13. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?
(a) They breed.
(b) They kill cats.
(c) They eat and sleep.
(d) They kill alligators.

14. Who was the warden of Little Barrier Island?
(a) Skip.
(b) Dobby.
(c) Mark.
(d) Arab.

15. Bill Black claims he has flown in Fiordland for ________ years.
(a) 32.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?

3. Who is said to be one of the most experienced helicopter pilots in the world, according to the narrator?

4. What part of Arab's body was the kakapo holding lightly, but firmly in its bill in Heartbeats in the Night?

5. The evolutionary change that passed Madagascar by was the arrival of the ________.

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