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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Carwardine, there are only ______ elephants left in Africa due to poachers.
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 250.
(d) 600,000.

2. Who was the premier expert on the endangered baiji described as a polite, kindly man about 60 years old, working at Nanjing University?
(a) Professor Zhou.
(b) Jurgen Langer.
(c) Ros Aveling.
(d) Dr. Hillman-Smith.

3. On the expedition, whose job was it to turn up with a suitcase and try to remember what happened long enough to write it down?
(a) Chris Muir.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Gaynor Shutte.
(d) Mark Carwardine.

4. Mark Carwardine explains that the ________, which was once the most common bird that ever lived on earth was hunted to extinction in little more than fifty years.
(a) Flying Squirrels.
(b) African Clawed Frogs.
(c) Chinese Water Dragons.
(d) Passenger pigeon.

5. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.
(a) Waste.
(b) Noise.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Water.

6. ________ are the white trails along cliffs where a bird has been sitting, according to chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.
(a) Mutes.
(b) Whelp.
(c) Troops.
(d) Streak.

7. In what year was the baiji dolphin first discovered, according to Adams in chapter Blind Panic?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1900.

8. All of the following people are mentioned in the book Last Chance to See, except for who?
(a) Charles.
(b) Diego.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Alain le Garsmeur.

9. All of the following animals are mentioned in the book, Last Chance to See, except for which of the following?
(a) Komodo dragon.
(b) Aye-aye.
(c) Mongoose.
(d) Kakapo.

10. 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) Alligator.
(b) Pig.
(c) Dolphin.
(d) Fish.

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

12. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Sir Isaac Newton.
(d) Albert Einstein.

13. Adams reveals that both Richard and Carl's first obsession was for ________.
(a) Appearance..
(b) Television.
(c) Birds.
(d) Shoes.

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

15. The chapter Blind Panic explains that the baiji dolphin was first discovered in ________.
(a) Dong Ting Lake.
(b) Xingkai Lake.
(c) Lugu Lake.
(d) Baiyangdian Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that all the history of China is symbolically focused at the ________.

2. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?

3. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.

4. According to Richard Lewis, how many echo parakeets are there in the wild?

5. The Chapter Rare, or Medium Rare states that in the Indian Ocean on an island called Mauritius there was a very rare bird, perhaps the rarest of all ________, called the Mauritius Kestrel.

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