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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.
(a) Drowned princess.
(b) Golden calf.
(c) Golden Minx.
(d) Bronze monkey.

2. In the chapter Blind Panic, Adams and Carwardine made a diversion to see an ________ farm, from which they got chased by police on the grounds that they didn't have appropriate permits.
(a) Pig.
(b) Alligator.
(c) Dolphin.
(d) Fish.

3. All of the following are locations visited by Adams and Carwardine, except for which of the following?
(a) Zaire.
(b) China.
(c) Madagascar.
(d) Ibiza.

4. Mark explains that, "There are so many threatened animals around the world that, at the rate of ________ every ________ weeks, it would have taken Douglas and me more than three hundred years to search for them all."
(a) 90 / 8.
(b) 2 / 10.
(c) 1 / 3.
(d) 3 / 3.

5. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.
(a) Russians.
(b) French.
(c) Germans.
(d) Dutch.

6. What animal does not breed well in captivity, according to Carwardine in Mark's Epilogue?
(a) Savannah Monitors.
(b) Three Toed Box turtles.
(c) Kinkajous.
(d) Northern White rhino.

7. What story once bothered Douglas Adams when he was young according to the chapter Sifting Through the Embers?
(a) The Sibylline books.
(b) A Jury of Her Peers.
(c) The Gift of the Magi.
(d) To Build a Fire.

8. Mark Carwardine explains that ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands in their ________.
(a) Tails.
(b) Toes.
(c) Ears.
(d) Wrists.

9. What term used in Rare, or Medium Rare describes when a bird hatches from its egg and falls in love with the first thing that feeds it?
(a) Genus.
(b) Polymorphisim.
(c) Radula.
(d) Imprinting.

10. When Adams wrote Last Chance to See, there were ________ human beings on earth.
(a) 1 million.
(b) 2 trillion.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 5 billion.

11. What was the name of the man who gets passengers in his Land Rover to answer questions by watching them rather than the dangerous road until they respond?
(a) Roberto Lira.
(b) Jurgen Langer.
(c) Richard Lewis.
(d) John Clements.

12. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cinnamon.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Salt.

13. Adams explains that when you spend time on islands with naturalists, you will tend to hear two words frequently. To what two words does Adams refer?
(a) Threatened and endangered.
(b) Endemic and exotic.
(c) Tame and wild.
(d) Poachers and hunters.

14. In what genre is Last Chance to see classified?
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Science non-fiction.
(c) Historical fiction.
(d) Science fiction.

15. In November ________, Carl found a parakeet nest with three eggs inside.
(a) 1999.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the premier expert on the endangered baiji described as a polite, kindly man about 60 years old, working at Nanjing University?

2. According to Mark Carwardine, a staggering ________ have been found and identified so far.

3. According to Adams, the term "fed up" actually comes from ________.

4. What was the name of the brilliant, but mad Welshman in his late 30s, who loves birds to the point of obsession?

5. All of the following people are mentioned in the book Last Chance to See, except for who?

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