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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. What does Adams claim to be the most famous of all the animals on Mauritius?
(a) Gentle dove.
(b) Bush baby.
(c) Aardvark.
(d) Meerkat.

2. The Chapter Rare, or Medium Rare states that in the Indian Ocean on an island called Mauritius there was a very rare bird, perhaps the rarest of all ________, called the Mauritius Kestrel.
(a) Eagles.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Falcons.

3. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for a quarter of her books?
(a) 3 sacks of diamonds.
(b) 4 sacks of diamonds.
(c) 4 sacks of gold.
(d) 9 sacks of diamonds.

4. What was the name of the Mauritius kestrel who was in love with Carl Jones?
(a) Blue.
(b) Flappy.
(c) Tweetie.
(d) Pink.

5. 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) July 24, 1977.
(b) November 9, 1998.
(c) September 4, 1999.
(d) August 25, 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.

2. What was the name of the man who gets passengers in his Land Rover to answer questions by watching them rather than the dangerous road until they respond?

3. Adams details that the gateway to the Forbidden City, the ________ Gate, is where the great iconic portrait of Chairman Mao gazed out across the vastness of the Tiananmen Square.

4. According to Richard Lewis, how many echo parakeets are there in the wild?

5. Professor Zhou said that ________ in the Yangtze was a major problem for the baiji dolphins, and severely interfered with their echolocation.

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the term "exotic species." Explain why a disaster usually is the result when species is introduced from abroad.

2. What two odd things did Adams find about the music he heard while in China? Explain.

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

4. Explain Carl Jones and Richard Lewis' s first obsession as seen in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

5. Analyze the importance of the reincarnation of the drowned princess to the Chinese culture, as described in Blind Panic.

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

7. Analyze the Tiananmen Gate.

8. What is Mark Carwardine's response to the question: "Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?"

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

10. Explain the beginning of the story of the Sibylline books. How do the townspeople respond to the old beggar woman?

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