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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. Mark's Epilogue explains that for millions of years, on average, ________ species became extinct every century.
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 20.

2. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?
(a) Endemic species.
(b) Endangered species.
(c) Threatened species.
(d) Exotic species.

3. Adams and Carwardine went to Rodrigues Island to look for what animal?
(a) Three-toed sloth.
(b) Spider monkey.
(c) Fruit bats.
(d) Elegant frog.

4. When Adams wrote Last Chance to See, there were ________ human beings on earth.
(a) 1 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 5 billion.
(d) 2 trillion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.

3. What term used in Rare, or Medium Rare describes when a bird hatches from its egg and falls in love with the first thing that feeds it?

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

5. Who was the narrator in Last Chance to See?

Short Essay Questions

1. Analyze the Tiananmen Gate.

2. Analyze the letter Douglas and Mark received from Andy Roberts in the chapter, Mark's Epilogue.

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

4. What does the note in the hotel's directory of guest services state according to Adams in the chapter Blind Panic?

5. What was the very rare bird on the island Mauritius? Describe this bird.

6. Analyze and describe Professor Zhou.

7. Describe and identify Pink as detailed in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

8. What has since happened to the Northern White rhinos in Zaire as detailed by Kes Hillman-Smith in the chapter Mark's Epilogue?

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

10. Why do the people of the city say that the old beggar woman can't be very wise or knowledgeable? Explain.

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