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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. In what town did Adams and Carwardine discover that even when making internal flights in Zaire, you still had to go through the full rigmarole of immigration and customs controls all over again?
(a) Kivu.
(b) Kinshasa.
(c) Bandundu.
(d) Goma.

2. According to Dr. Sutherland, the ________ is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are in ________.
(a) Northern Rubber Boa / Asia.
(b) Indian Cobra / Australia.
(c) Western Cottonmouth / United States.
(d) Tiger Rattlesnake / Africa.

3. Who was an extremely experienced and knowledgeable zoologist who was working at that time for the World Wildlife Fund?
(a) Gaynor.
(b) Kiri.
(c) Mark Carwardine.
(d) Douglas Adams.

4. In Heartbeats in the Night, Douglas Adams wonders why so many words that describe what the sun does in the morning begin with the letters "________."
(a) GI.
(b) Ma.
(c) Be.
(d) Sa.

5. The narrator explains in Twig Technology that monkeys are ambitious and interested in all sorts of things, especially ________, with which they found they could do all kinds of things that they couldn't do by themselves.
(a) Grass.
(b) Trees.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Twigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. The evolutionary change that passed Madagascar by was the arrival of the ________.

2. Dr. Sutherland explains that the most poisonous spider is the ________, which bites about five hundred people a year.

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

4. Douglas Adams explains that "one of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for ________."

5. According to Adams in Twig Technology, Antananarivo is pronounced ________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the irony Adams saw surrounding the history of lemurs.

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

3. What extraordinary thing happened to both Adams and Carwardine in Twig Technology?

4. How does Adams answer the big question: "How on earth has the Kakapo managed to last this long?"

5. Analyze Don Merton as described by Adams in Heartbeats in the Night.

6. Define primary rain forest and its importance to the ecological system.

7. Explain the significance of "darkest Africa," as seen in the chapter Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

8. Illustrate the other two people sharing the hut with Adams and Carwardine in the Virunga Volcanoes.

9. Analyze the Northern White rhinoceros of Czechoslovakia.

10. Are Komodo dragons man-eaters? Explain.

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