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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. Who was the photographer on the plane with Adams in Twig Technology?
(a) Alain le Garsmeur.
(b) Condo Subagyo.
(c) Don Merton.
(d) Chris Muir.

2. What item did the pharmacie's in Zaire not carry that bewildered Adams in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat?
(a) Toothpaste.
(b) Guns.
(c) Band-aids.
(d) Advil.

3. Carwardine told Adams before going to bed in the chapter, Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, to turn his boots upside-down and shake them in the morning for what reason?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Ticks.
(d) Scorpions.

4. In what decade did Madagascar manage to divest themselves from French rule?
(a) 1960's.
(b) 1980's.
(c) 1970's.
(d) 1950's.

5. Adams states that when Captain Cook saw New Zealand from the sea in ________, he recorded that "inland as far as the eye can see the peaks are crowded together as to scarcely admit any valleys between them."
(a) 1492.
(b) 1588.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1773.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term was used Heartbeats of the Night to describe an animal who doesn't like other animals?

2. Who was the freelance Kakapo tracker working for the New Zealand Department of Conservation?

3. Which two people meet Adams and Carwardine at the airport who are described as small, willowy-slim, healthy looking Indonesians?

4. The Virunga Volcanoes border the following countries except for which one?

5. The first thing Adams and Carwardine saw in the Zaire customs hut was a picture of a ________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the lack of woodpeckers in Madagascar?

3. Describe Kiri and Moose as discussed in the chapter, Here Be Chickens.

4. Explain the term "habituating," as described in the chapter, Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

5. What problem arose while Mark Carwardine was arranging travel plans with the Ambassador in Brussels?

6. Analyze the Northern White rhinoceros of Czechoslovakia.

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

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

9. Explain Dr. Struan Sutherland's answer to the question: What does one do when bitten by a poisonous snake?

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

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