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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Rocks.
(c) Twigs.
(d) Grass.

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

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

5. Douglas Adams reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.
(a) Cars.
(b) Animals.
(c) Buildings.
(d) Houses.

6. 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) 1973.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

7. Other than Madagascar, where else does the Aye-aye live?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) New Zealand.

8. Which two people meet Adams and Carwardine at the airport who are described as small, willowy-slim, healthy looking Indonesians?
(a) Kiri and Moose.
(b) Stella and Liam.
(c) Bill and Scout.
(d) Tori and Dean.

9. Mark Carwardine said in Twig Technology that the Ambassador in ________ promised that the Ministry of Agriculture would be able to give them two Land Rovers and a helicopter.
(a) Boaco.
(b) Bissau.
(c) Bakki.
(d) Brussels.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."
(a) 1588.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1492.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Arab's specially-trained and muzzled dog?

2. Twig Technology says that the Kakapo lives in what country?

3. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that the Aye-aye is a ________ lemur.

4. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?

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

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