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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the strange person carrying with them in the beginning of the story the Sibylline books?
(a) 22 Bibles.
(b) 3 bags of gold.
(c) 12 large books.
(d) 5 green apples.

2. After being rejected by the townsmen for the second time, the old beggar woman burned how many more books?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

3. Adams and Carwardine also received a letter from Kes Hillman-Smith in Zaire, saying that ________ baby Northern White rhinos had been born in Garamba since they left, bringing the total population up to ________.
(a) 3 / 25.
(b) 8 / 20.
(c) 4 / 8.
(d) 10 / 11.

4. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for the six remaining books?
(a) 1 sack of gold.
(b) 2 sacks of gold.
(c) 2 sacks of diamonds.
(d) 6 sacks of diamonds.

5. 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) Imprinting.
(b) Radula.
(c) Genus.
(d) Polymorphisim.

6. ________ nest is the first encouraging sign that the kakapo project is actually working according to Mark's Epilogue.
(a) Heather's.
(b) Sara's.
(c) Emma's.
(d) Jennifer's.

7. On Little Barrier Island, several of the males there had been booming for the first time, including a nine-year-old called ________, according to Mark's Epilogue.
(a) Andi.
(b) Skipper.
(c) Snark.
(d) Bisquit.

8. 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) 2 / 10.
(b) 90 / 8.
(c) 1 / 3.
(d) 3 / 3.

9. What was the point of view of the book, Last Chance to See?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person narrative.
(d) Alternating point of view.

10. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a single book at the end of Sifting Through the Embers?
(a) 10 sacks of diamonds.
(b) 16 sacks of gold.
(c) 6 sacks of gold.
(d) 20 sacks of diamonds.

11. Mark's Epilogue explains that for millions of years, on average, ________ species became extinct every century.
(a) 20.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 1.

12. Why did Adams and Carwardine need to buy a condom in chapter Blind Panic?
(a) To have a souvenir.
(b) To use as protection.
(c) To protect their food against bugs.
(d) To go over the microphone to record dolphins.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?

3. Adams and Carwardine went to Rodrigues Island to look for what animal?

4. Adams states in chapter Blind Panic that everyone in China rides ________.

5. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.

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