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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. Adams informs the reader that a young female gorilla called ________, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicemia in August 1988.
(a) Niomi.
(b) Sydney.
(c) Tara.
(d) Jozi.

2. What was the first animal Adams and Carwardine looked for in Here Be Chickens?
(a) Kinkajou.
(b) Komodo dragon.
(c) Squirrel monkey.
(d) White Lion.

3. What was the name of the BBC sound engineer that accompanied Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine?
(a) Robert Giusti.
(b) Liu Renjun.
(c) John Fontana.
(d) Chris Muir.

4. Douglas Adams expressed that when people talk of "darkest Africa," it's usually ________ they have in mind.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Republic of the Congo.
(d) Ethiopia.

5. According to Adams, there are ________ Northern White rhinoceros in Czechoslovakia.
(a) 90.
(b) 57.
(c) 21.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Adams, what happens to all cats born in Labuan Bajo?

2. Who are the two stereotypically superior, young German tourists in Zaïre who go with Adams and Carwardine on their search for mountain gorillas?

3. Mark Carwardine said in Twig Technology that the Ambassador in ________ promised that the Ministry of Agriculture would be able to give them two Land Rovers and a helicopter.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, where in Zaire do the mountain gorillas live?

5. Douglas Adams reveals that the country eventually changed its name from the Belgian Congo to Zaire in what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Analyze and discuss the Great Apes found in the chapter Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

5. Compare and contrast Adams' view of Bali to that of David Attenborough's.

6. What major evolutionary change passed Madagascar, according to Adams?

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

8. Describe the Komodo dragons found in chapter Here Be Chickens.

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

10. Analyze the Northern White rhinoceros of Czechoslovakia.

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