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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. Who was the narrator in Last Chance to See?
(a) Alain le Garsmeur.
(b) Mark Carwardine.
(c) Chris Muir.
(d) Douglas Adams.

2. All of the following animals are mentioned in the book, Last Chance to See, except for which of the following?
(a) Aye-aye.
(b) Kakapo.
(c) Komodo dragon.
(d) Mongoose.

3. A unique feature revealed by Adams about the baiji is that it is half ________.
(a) Amphibian.
(b) Reptile.
(c) Deaf.
(d) Blind.

4. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Sir Isaac Newton.

5. Adams and Carwardine entered the Tiananmen Square on ________.
(a) January 1982.
(b) October 1988.
(c) July 1990.
(d) August 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ nest is the first encouraging sign that the kakapo project is actually working according to Mark's Epilogue.

2. Adams explains that in the thirties, the Peace Hotel was known as 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. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how Round Island has remained a refuge for unique species as described in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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