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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Robert.
(b) Mr. Condo.
(c) Kiri.
(d) Frederick.

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

3. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.
(a) Tarantulas.
(b) Black Widow.
(c) Brown Recluse.
(d) Sydney Funnel-web.

4. According to Adams, what happens to all cats born in Labuan Bajo?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are shipped to Europe.
(c) They are sold on the black market.
(d) They have their tails docked.

5. What bird in the chapter Heartbeats in the Night does Adams say he was destined never to find out anything more about while on his way to the warden's lodge?
(a) The Emu.
(b) The little blue penguin.
(c) The Peregrine Falcon.
(d) The White-cheeked Bulbul.

6. According to Adams, ________ in every five of the gorillas alive in the world's zoos today were originally taken from the wild.
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

7. Who was an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist who was working at that time for the World Wildlife Fund?
(a) Kiri.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Mark Carwardine.
(d) Gaynor.

8. What animal is the world's largest, fattest, and least able-to-fly parrot?
(a) Dodo.
(b) Elephant birds.
(c) Moa.
(d) Kakapo.

9. 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 ________.'"
(a) Chickens.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Goats.

10. Who was the freelance Kakapo tracker working for the New Zealand Department of Conservation?
(a) Zhou.
(b) Mike.
(c) Arab.
(d) Dobby.

11. What does DOC stand for as it relates to the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Department of Corrections.
(b) Department of Conservation.
(c) Documentation of Compliance.
(d) Department of Commerce.

12. Who is the Zaire's ex-colonial master?
(a) The Canadians.
(b) The Belgians.
(c) The Irish.
(d) The Germans.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.

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

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

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

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

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