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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. According to a disturbing letter received by Douglas and Mark from a couple who had been working in China, the couple says that they ate ________.
(a) Two Aye-aye lemurs.
(b) Three Kakapos.
(c) Two Baiji Dolphins.
(d) One Northern White Rhino.

2. According to a letter Carwardine received, at 08.45 hours on ________, one of the dog handlers, Alan Munn, and his English Setter, 'Ari' located a new female kakapo near Lees Knob.
(a) August 25, 1989.
(b) July 24, 1977.
(c) September 4, 1999.
(d) November 9, 1998.

3. What is the name of the arrogant Frenchman in chapter Rare, or Medium Rare, who Adams, Carwardine and Richard detest instantly?
(a) Jacques.
(b) Liu.
(c) Ivan.
(d) David.

4. Adams explains that when you spend time on islands with naturalists, you will tend to hear two words frequently. To what two words does Adams refer?
(a) Tame and wild.
(b) Endemic and exotic.
(c) Threatened and endangered.
(d) Poachers and hunters.

5. What was the name of the non-round island near Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean?
(a) Kodiak Island.
(b) Baffin Island.
(c) Victoria Island.
(d) Round Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that all the history of China is symbolically focused at the ________.

2. In the chapter Blind Panic, Adams and Carwardine made a diversion to see an ________ farm, from which they got chased by police on the grounds that they didn't have appropriate permits.

3. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?

4. What was the strange person carrying with them in the beginning of the story the Sibylline books?

5. Adams informs the reader that ________, from the point of view of the ecology of the Mauritius, is a major problem.

Short Essay Questions

1. What book bothered Douglas Adams when he was young? How does he feel about the book now? Explain.

2. What two distinctive sounds in China does Adams encounter in the chapter Blind Panic?

3. What odd thing did Adams notice while in China that he describes in the chapter Blind Panic?

4. Analyze and describe Professor Zhou.

5. Analyze the two new species of lemur found in Madagascar, according to the chapter Mark's Epilogue.

6. Analyze one of the problems with breeding birds in captivity.

7. What is the significance of the title Sifting Through the Embers?

8. Explain what happened to the Passenger pigeon according to Mark Carwardine.

9. Explain Carl Jones's character according to Adams in Rare, or Medium Rare.

10. What occurs when they send the old beggar woman away?

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