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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following are names of the Kakapos on the Little Barrier Island, except for which of the following?
(a) Snark.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Luke.

2. 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) Be.
(c) GI.
(d) Sa.

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

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

5. 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) Terry Greene.
(d) Bill Black.

6. Mark Carwardine states that the "________ is an incredibly complex system, but when you're actually standing in it, it looks half-empty."
(a) Tundra.
(b) Primary rain forest.
(c) Grasslands.
(d) Flatlands.

7. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.
(a) Ethiopia.
(b) Republic of the Congo.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Nigeria.

8. ________ is on the island of Flores and is the nearest port to Komodo.
(a) Borneo.
(b) Marajó.
(c) Labuan Bajo.
(d) Sulawesi.

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

10. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."
(a) Animal hair.
(b) Animal fossils.
(c) Animal breeding.
(d) Animal droppings.

11. 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) 1988.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1990.

12. 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) Property of the United States.
(b) Belgian Congo.
(c) District of Columbia.
(d) French Territory.

13. ________, 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) Great Barrier Reef / Australia.
(b) Cape Town / South Africa.
(c) Fiordland / New Zealand.
(d) Machu Picchu / Peru.

14. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Castaway.
(b) Raodah.
(c) Bonita.
(d) Allegro.

15. In what decade did Madagascar manage to divest themselves from French rule?
(a) 1950's.
(b) 1980's.
(c) 1960's.
(d) 1970's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.

2. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?

3. What animal is found in New Guinea and has a long and skeletal thin fourth finger?

4. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?

5. According to Adams, there are ________ Northern White rhinoceros in Czechoslovakia.

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