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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. Carl Jones expresses that he hates ________ in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.
(a) Cats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Media people.
(d) Englishmen.

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.
(a) Hawks.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Falcons.

3. Douglas Adams explains that in the middle of one of the biggest, longest, noisiest, dirtiest thoroughfares in the world lives the reincarnation of a ________.
(a) Bronze monkey.
(b) Golden calf.
(c) Golden Minx.
(d) Drowned princess.

4. The chapter Blind Panic explains that the baiji dolphin was first discovered in ________.
(a) Dong Ting Lake.
(b) Xingkai Lake.
(c) Lugu Lake.
(d) Baiyangdian Lake.

5. ________ nest is the first encouraging sign that the kakapo project is actually working according to Mark's Epilogue.
(a) Sara's.
(b) Emma's.
(c) Heather's.
(d) Jennifer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has long been discredited as a bourgeois capitalist running-dog lackey, according to the chapter Blind Panic?

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

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. On Little Barrier Island, several of the males there had been booming for the first time, including a nine-year-old called ________, according to Mark's Epilogue.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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