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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bisquit.
(c) Snark.
(d) Skipper.

2. What was Last Chance to See about?
(a) Newly discovered species.
(b) Extinct species.
(c) Endangered species.
(d) Poisonous species.

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

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

5. In what year was the baiji dolphin first discovered, according to Adams in chapter Blind Panic?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1914.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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) Xylitol.
(c) Bentonite.
(d) Fluoride.

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

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

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

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

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

15. According to Mark Carwardine, a staggering ________ have been found and identified so far.
(a) 1 billion.
(b) 1.4 million.
(c) 9.5 million.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as the ________.

2. 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.

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

4. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a single book at the end of Sifting Through the Embers?

5. ________ is when a bird shakes its wings and body and is a sign that the bird feels ________.

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