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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.
(a) Chinese Water Dragons.
(b) Flying Squirrels.
(c) Passenger pigeon.
(d) African Clawed Frogs.

5. According to Carwardine, there are only ______ elephants left in Africa due to poachers.
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 250.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 600,000.

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

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

8. 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 Northern Rightwhale Dolphin.
(b) The Irrawaddy Dolphin.
(c) The Baiji.
(d) The Tucuxi.

9. According to a disturbing letter received by Douglas and Mark from a couple who had been working in China, the couple says that they ate ________.
(a) Two Baiji Dolphins.
(b) Two Aye-aye lemurs.
(c) Three Kakapos.
(d) One Northern White Rhino.

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

11. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.
(a) Rubber-over.
(b) Safety glove.
(c) Love glove.
(d) Sock.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer 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.

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

3. Adams and Carwardine went to Rodrigues Island to look for what animal?

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

5. What term describes the process by which the bird cleans its beak of meat after eating, by rubbing it along a branch?

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