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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the nearly extinct animal living in the Yangtze River that Adams and Carwardine searching for in Blind Panic?
(a) The Tucuxi.
(b) The Northern Rightwhale Dolphin.
(c) The Baiji.
(d) The Irrawaddy Dolphin.

2. What term describes the process by which the bird cleans its beak of meat after eating, by rubbing it along a branch?
(a) Brooding.
(b) Grooming.
(c) Feeking.
(d) Sleuthing.

3. Who was the narrator in Last Chance to See?
(a) Chris Muir.
(b) Mark Carwardine.
(c) Douglas Adams.
(d) Alain le Garsmeur.

4. 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) Golden Minx.
(b) Drowned princess.
(c) Bronze monkey.
(d) Golden calf.

5. How much was the strange person asking in return for all of their books?
(a) 1 sack of diamonds.
(b) 3 sacks of gold.
(c) 1 sack of gold.
(d) 7 sacks of diamonds.

6. The story in the chapter Sifting Through the Embers details a summer, when the people of the city were busy thriving and prospering, a strange ________ arrived at the gates.
(a) Hairless child.
(b) Toothless man.
(c) Dirty witch.
(d) Old beggar woman.

7. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as the ________.
(a) Ziva.
(b) Margarette.
(c) Cathay.
(d) Logan.

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

9. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?
(a) June 18, 1812.
(b) July 21, 1823.
(c) October 1, 1949.
(d) January 3, 1933.

10. 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) Douglas Adams.
(b) Gaynor Shutte.
(c) Mark Carwardine.
(d) Chris Muir.

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

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

13. 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) 20 sacks of diamonds.
(c) 6 sacks of gold.
(d) 16 sacks of gold.

14. What was the name of the brilliant, but mad Welshman in his late 30s, who loves birds to the point of obsession?
(a) Bill Black.
(b) Carl Jones.
(c) Richard Lewis.
(d) Peter Guzzardi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.

3. According to Carwardine, there are only ______ elephants left in Africa due to poachers.

4. What was a mining product used in producing t toothpaste, iron and steel casting, and also as an additive for pig food?

5. Adams and Carwardine entered the Friendship Store in the chapter Blind Panic to purchase what item?

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