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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Adams and Carwardine went to Rodrigues Island to look for what animal?
(a) Elegant frog.
(b) Spider monkey.
(c) Fruit bats.
(d) Three-toed sloth.

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

4. Don Merton phoned Carwardine to tell him that a newly made kakapo nest had been found on ________.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Little Barrier Island.
(c) China.
(d) Stewart Island.

5. What was a mining product used in producing t toothpaste, iron and steel casting, and also as an additive for pig food?
(a) Menthol.
(b) Fluoride.
(c) Bentonite.
(d) Xylitol.

6. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?
(a) Endangered species.
(b) Exotic species.
(c) Endemic species.
(d) Threatened species.

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) Skipper.
(b) Andi.
(c) Snark.
(d) Bisquit.

8. Adams and Carwardine entered the Friendship Store in the chapter Blind Panic to purchase what item?
(a) Aftershave.
(b) Toothpaste.
(c) Condoms.
(d) Souvenirs.

9. 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.
(a) Hawks.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Falcons.

10. 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) Old beggar woman.
(b) Dirty witch.
(c) Hairless child.
(d) Toothless man.

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

12. According to Adams, the term "fed up" actually comes from ________.
(a) Falconry.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a quarter of her books?

3. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."

4. When Adams wrote Last Chance to See, there were ________ human beings on earth.

5. After being rejected by the towns people, the old beggar woman burned ________ books.

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