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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 was the point of view of the book, Last Chance to See?
(a) First person narrative.
(b) Second person.
(c) Alternating point of view.
(d) Third person.

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?
(a) Roberto Lira.
(b) Jurgen Langer.
(c) John Clements.
(d) Richard Lewis.

3. What story once bothered Douglas Adams when he was young according to the chapter Sifting Through the Embers?
(a) The Gift of the Magi.
(b) To Build a Fire.
(c) A Jury of Her Peers.
(d) The Sibylline books.

4. 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) One Northern White Rhino.
(b) Two Baiji Dolphins.
(c) Three Kakapos.
(d) Two Aye-aye lemurs.

5. Don Merton phoned Carwardine to tell him that a newly made kakapo nest had been found on ________.
(a) Stewart Island.
(b) Little Barrier Island.
(c) China.
(d) Zaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Douglas and Mark a letter soon after they returned to England about the kakapo's slow road to recovery?

2. A unique feature revealed by Adams about the baiji is that it is half ________.

3. All of the following are locations visited by Adams and Carwardine, except for which of the following?

4. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.

5. How much was the old beggar woman asking for in return for the six remaining books?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Analyze the Tiananmen Gate.

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

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

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

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

8. What is Mark Carwardine's response to the question: "Was this really our last chance to see these animals?"

9. Analyze and describe Professor Zhou.

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

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