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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. Douglas Adams reveals that there is a good living to be made in Bali from pointing at ________.
(a) Cars.
(b) Animals.
(c) Buildings.
(d) Houses.

2. In Twig Technology, the narrator states that the Aye-aye is a ________ lemur.
(a) Amphibious.
(b) Nocturnal.
(c) Marine.
(d) Marsupial.

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

4. Twig Technology declared that there are less than ________ Northern White rhinos left, and there's a desperate battle going on to save them from the poachers.
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 100.

5. All of the following were on-board the twenty-three-foot fishing vessel in the chapter Here Be Chickens, except for which?
(a) Four chickens.
(b) Two small boys.
(c) A goat.
(d) Kiri.

Short Answer Questions

1. A guest house or small hotel in Indonesia is called a ________.

2. Adams informs the reader that "Moose" was short for ________.

3. Who was the man in Melbourne who Adams claim knew more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth?

4. In Twig Technology, the narrator details how his airplane, full of ________ descendants arrived at ________ airport.

5. What is the name of the mountain parrots that are very intelligent, with long curved beaks and distinctive wing beats in the chapter, Heartbeats in the Night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Analyze the Northern White rhinoceros of Czechoslovakia.

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