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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 are the two stereotypically superior, young German tourists in Zaïre who go with Adams and Carwardine on their search for mountain gorillas?
(a) Helmut and Kurt.
(b) Murara and Serundori.
(c) Arab and Zhou.
(d) Kes and Fraser.

2. In the chapter Here Be Chickens, Adam and Carwardine board a boat that was a twenty-three-foot fishing vessel called the ________.
(a) Bonita.
(b) Allegro.
(c) Raodah.
(d) Castaway.

3. According to Carwardine, what does a Kakapo tracker do when there aren't any Kakapo that need tracking?
(a) They breed.
(b) They kill cats.
(c) They eat and sleep.
(d) They kill alligators.

4. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.
(a) Dwarf lemur.
(b) Flying fox.
(c) Indri.
(d) Woodpeckers.

5. 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) Bandundu.
(b) Kinshasa.
(c) Goma.
(d) Kivu.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Adams, who was a field researcher in Goma who has for years been responsible for gorilla conservation work in the area.

2. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.

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

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

5. Bill Black claims he has flown in Fiordland for ________ years.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Aye-aye discussed in chapter Twig Technology.

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

3. Analyze and describe the Kakapo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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