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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."
(a) Spiders.
(b) Heights.
(c) China.
(d) Flying.

2. What was the name of the non-round island near Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean?
(a) Baffin Island.
(b) Victoria Island.
(c) Kodiak Island.
(d) Round Island.

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

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

5. What animal does not breed well in captivity, according to Carwardine in Mark's Epilogue?
(a) Savannah Monitors.
(b) Three Toed Box turtles.
(c) Kinkajous.
(d) Northern White rhino.

6. What was the name of the spectacular remnant of the days when Shanghai was one of the most glamorous and cosmopolitan ports in the world?
(a) The Hampton Hotel.
(b) The Peace Hotel.
(c) The Four Seasons Hotel.
(d) The Hilton Hotel.

7. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.
(a) Pepper.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Salt.
(d) Cinnamon.

8. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a quarter of her books?
(a) 9 sacks of diamonds.
(b) 3 sacks of diamonds.
(c) 4 sacks of diamonds.
(d) 4 sacks of gold.

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

10. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.
(a) Russians.
(b) French.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Germans.

11. How much was the strange person asking in return for all of their books?
(a) 1 sack of gold.
(b) 1 sack of diamonds.
(c) 7 sacks of diamonds.
(d) 3 sacks of gold.

12. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.
(a) Smoke.
(b) Noise.
(c) Waste.
(d) Water.

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

14. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?
(a) October 1, 1949.
(b) June 18, 1812.
(c) July 21, 1823.
(d) January 3, 1933.

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

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. After being rejected by the townsmen for the second time, the old beggar woman burned how many more 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. 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."

5. What does Adams claim to be the most famous of all the animals on Mauritius?

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