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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. In what genre is Last Chance to see classified?
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Science non-fiction.

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

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

4. Adams and Carwardine went to Rodrigues Island to look for what animal?
(a) Fruit bats.
(b) Spider monkey.
(c) Three-toed sloth.
(d) Elegant frog.

5. Which environment alone contains half the world's species of animals and plants, according to Carwardine?
(a) Rain Forests.
(b) Grasslands.
(c) Tundras.
(d) Deserts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams explains that all the history of China is symbolically focused at the ________.

2. Mark Carwardine explains that the ________, which was once the most common bird that ever lived on earth was hunted to extinction in little more than fifty years.

3. The story in the chapter Sifting Through the Embers details a summer, when the people of the city were busy thriving and prospering, a strange ________ arrived at the gates.

4. What does Adams claim to be the most famous of all the animals on Mauritius?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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