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

2. According to Carwardine, there are only ______ elephants left in Africa due to poachers.
(a) 250.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 600,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

4. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.
(a) Love glove.
(b) Rubber-over.
(c) Sock.
(d) Safety glove.

5. Mark Carwardine explains that ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands in their ________.
(a) Tails.
(b) Ears.
(c) Toes.
(d) Wrists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In November ________, Carl found a parakeet nest with three eggs inside.

2. 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 ________.

3. ________ are the white trails along cliffs where a bird has been sitting, according to chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

4. In what genre is Last Chance to see classified?

5. What is the name of a plant or animal that is native to an island or region and is found nowhere else at all?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the Tiananmen Square as described by Adams in the chapter Blind Panic.

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

3. According to the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare, what happened to Reunion Island? Explain.

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

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

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

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

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

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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