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

3. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?
(a) Grasslands.
(b) Rain Forests.
(c) Deserts.
(d) Tundras.

4. After being rejected by the towns people, the old beggar woman burned ________ books.
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

5. Douglas Adams explains in the chapter Blind Panic that foreigners are not allowed to ________ in China.
(a) Work.
(b) Drive.
(c) Fish.
(d) Swim.

6. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.
(a) Yoddeling / scared.
(b) Rousing / relaxed.
(c) Simpering / lonely.
(d) Warbling / sad.

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

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

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

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

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

12. According to Richard Lewis, how many echo parakeets are there in the wild?
(a) 200.
(b) 15.
(c) 7438.
(d) 1000.

13. In November ________, Carl found a parakeet nest with three eggs inside.
(a) 1999.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1984.

14. 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) 1 / 3.
(b) 90 / 8.
(c) 2 / 10.
(d) 3 / 3.

15. Adams explains that all the history of China is symbolically focused at the ________.
(a) Summer Palace.
(b) Great Wall.
(c) Tiananmen Square.
(d) Reed Flute Cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. What was Richard Lewis' profession?

3. ________ nest is the first encouraging sign that the kakapo project is actually working according to Mark's Epilogue.

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

5. What was the name of the nearly extinct animal living in the Yangtze River that Adams and Carwardine searching for in Blind Panic?

(see the answer keys)

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