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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the name of the benign man with the air of a vicar on-board the plane with Adams and Carwardine in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?
(a) Daniel Torres.
(b) Bob Wyatt.
(c) Don Merton.
(d) Carlos Weber.

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

6. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?
(a) They kill alligators.
(b) They kill cats.
(c) They breed.
(d) They eat and sleep.

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

8. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that the Aye-aye is a ________ lemur.
(a) Marsupial.
(b) Amphibious.
(c) Marine.
(d) Nocturnal.

9. 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) Upper lip.
(c) Left earlobe.
(d) Nose.

10. 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) District of Columbia.
(c) Belgian Congo.
(d) Property of the United States.

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Grasslands.
(c) Flatlands.
(d) Primary rain forest.

Short Answer 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?

2. A little-known fact revealed in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night, is that one of the more dangerous animals in Africa is the ________.

3. Mark Carwardine explains that there are more _________ per square meter of ground on Komodo than in any equivalent area on earth.

4. Adams explains that once, before New Zealand was inhabited by humans, there were hundreds of thousands of ________.

5. 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 "________."

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