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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) Right forefinger.
(b) Nose.
(c) Upper lip.
(d) Left earlobe.

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

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

4. What is the name of Arab's specially-trained and muzzled dog?
(a) Clifford.
(b) Meatloaf.
(c) Boss.
(d) Rover.

5. What was the nearly extinct form of lemur called that Mark and Douglas went to search for in Twig Technology?
(a) Fat-Tailed Dwarf.
(b) Alaotran Gentle.
(c) Aye-aye.
(d) Ring-tailed.

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

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

8. 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) Track and bowl system.
(c) Dashed unit ball.
(d) Checks and balances.

9. What is the name of the tiny, idyllic, rain-forest island just off the northeast coast of Madagascar?
(a) Sainte-Marie.
(b) Mahajanga.
(c) Nosy Mangabe.
(d) Ambohimahamasina.

10. 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) 1985.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

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

12. Douglas Adams informs the reader that every other shop in Zaire is a ________.
(a) Pharmacie.
(b) Bakery.
(c) Grocery store.
(d) Gas station.

13. According to Adams, there are ________ Northern White rhinoceros in Czechoslovakia.
(a) 8.
(b) 90.
(c) 21.
(d) 57.

14. 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) Eritrea.
(b) Djibouti.
(c) Bukima.
(d) Angola.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in the chapter Here Be Chickens, "I knew that if I were a mariner in unknown waters, the first thing I would write on my charts at this moment would be 'Here Be ________.'"

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

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

4. 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?

5. Chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat asserts that the other ________ are the gorillas, of which there are ________ subspecies.

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