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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) Second person.
(b) First person narrative.
(c) Third person.
(d) Alternating point of view.

2. According to Adams in the first sentence of chapter Blind Panic, ________ are the things you don't know you're making.
(a) Procrastination.
(b) Lies.
(c) Excuses.
(d) Assumptions.

3. Mark Carwardine says that Mauritius was originally colonized by the _______.
(a) Dutch.
(b) Germans.
(c) French.
(d) Russians.

4. According to Mark Carwardine, a staggering ________ have been found and identified so far.
(a) 200,000.
(b) 1.4 million.
(c) 9.5 million.
(d) 1 billion.

5. Mark's Epilogue explains that for millions of years, on average, ________ species became extinct every century.
(a) 9.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adams states that there are only ________ bottle palm trees on Round Island.

2. According to Richard Lewis, how many echo parakeets are there in the wild?

3. Who was the narrator in Last Chance to See?

4. Who was the premier expert on the endangered baiji described as a polite, kindly man about 60 years old, working at Nanjing University?

5. After being rejected by the townsmen for the second time, the old beggar woman burned how many more books?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Analyze the Tiananmen Gate.

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

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

6. Analyze and describe Professor Zhou.

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

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

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

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

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