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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.
(a) Increased to over 50.
(b) Stayed the same.
(c) Hit zero.
(d) Dropped to fewer than 10.

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

4. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 90.
(d) 21.

5. 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 Gift of the Magi.
(c) A Jury of Her Peers.
(d) The Sibylline books.

6. Carl Jones expresses that he hates ________ in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cats.
(d) Media people.

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

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

9. 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) John Clements.
(b) Jurgen Langer.
(c) Roberto Lira.
(d) Richard Lewis.

10. Adams details that the gateway to the Forbidden City, the ________ Gate, is where the great iconic portrait of Chairman Mao gazed out across the vastness of the Tiananmen Square.
(a) Tiananmen.
(b) Brandenburg.
(c) Heaven's.
(d) Golden.

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

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

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

14. 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) Fish.
(c) Pig.
(d) Dolphin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the arrogant Frenchman in chapter Rare, or Medium Rare, who Adams, Carwardine and Richard detest instantly?

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

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

4. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?

5. The population of Chatham Island robins was down to one pregnant female, but the dedication of ________ and his team saved the species from extinction according to Mark's Epilogue.

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