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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. When did Chairman Mao proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China?
(a) July 21, 1823.
(b) January 3, 1933.
(c) October 1, 1949.
(d) June 18, 1812.

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

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

4. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.
(a) Increased to over 50.
(b) Stayed the same.
(c) Dropped to fewer than 10.
(d) Hit zero.

5. 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?
(a) Genus.
(b) Imprinting.
(c) Radula.
(d) Polymorphisim.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mark Carwardine, a staggering ________ have been found and identified so far.

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.

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

4. 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.

5. What was the strange person carrying with them in the beginning of the story the Sibylline books?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Analyze the ending of the story of the Sibylline books.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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