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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Uganda.

5. How many poachers does Murara claim to have shot dead?
(a) 5.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

7. 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?
(a) Bukima.
(b) Eritrea.
(c) Djibouti.
(d) Angola.

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

9. 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) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1988.

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

11. Douglas Adams was a self-proclaimed writer of humorous ________.
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Historical fiction.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Romance fiction.

12. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?
(a) Dr. Charles R. Drew.
(b) Dr. Struan Sutherland.
(c) Dr. Christiaan Barnard
(d) Dr. Jean Astruc.

13. 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) Murara and Serundori.
(c) Helmut and Kurt.
(d) Kes and Fraser.

14. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Peru.
(d) Germany.

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) Scorpions.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Ticks.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Adams, what species is one of man's closest living relatives?

2. Who was an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist who was working at that time for the World Wildlife Fund?

3. Douglas Adams informs the reader that every other shop in Zaire is a ________.

4. According to Douglas Adams, there are ________ species of lemurs on Madagascar.

5. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?

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