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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Arab's specially-trained and muzzled dog?
(a) Clifford.
(b) Meatloaf.
(c) Rover.
(d) Boss.

2. ________ is on the island of Flores and is the nearest port to Komodo.
(a) Labuan Bajo.
(b) Marajó.
(c) Sulawesi.
(d) Borneo.

3. Twig Technology states that at the end of the last century, ________ took over Madagascar.
(a) Peru.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Germany.

4. The currency-declaration forms that Adams and Carwardine had to fill out in Zaire had the heading ________, crossed out, with "Zaire" written instead in pencil.
(a) District of Columbia.
(b) Property of the United States.
(c) French Territory.
(d) Belgian Congo.

5. How many poachers does Murara claim to have shot dead?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the benign man with the air of a vicar on-board the plane with Adams and Carwardine in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?

2. All of the following were on-board the twenty-three-foot fishing vessel in the chapter Here Be Chickens, except for which?

3. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.

4. Adams explains that once, before New Zealand was inhabited by humans, there were hundreds of thousands of ________.

5. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.

Short Essay Questions

1. What three animals are the most poisonous? Explain.

2. Compare and contrast Mark Carwardine to Douglas Adams, as described in chapter Twig Technology.

3. Analyze the Northern White rhinoceros of Czechoslovakia.

4. Analyze the title of Heartbeats in the Night.

5. Describe the first thing Adams and Carwardine saw in the customs hut in Zaire.

6. Discuss the French control over Madagascar and the spelling of Antananarivo.

7. Describe the Kea, as discussed in Heartbeats in the Night.

8. What confession does Adams make in Heartbeats in the Night?

9. Discuss the poaching problem described in the chapter, Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

10. What peculiar thing happened to Adams in Twig Technology?

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