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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. On the expedition, whose job was it to turn up with a suitcase and try to remember what happened long enough to write it down?
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) Chris Muir.
(c) Gaynor Shutte.
(d) Mark Carwardine.

2. In the chapter Blind Panic, Adams and Carwardine made a diversion to see an ________ farm, from which they got chased by police on the grounds that they didn't have appropriate permits.
(a) Fish.
(b) Dolphin.
(c) Alligator.
(d) Pig.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked in chapter Blind Panic "are you feeling nervous about something," Adams replies, "________."

2. Carl Jones expresses that he hates ________ in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.

3. 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.

4. How much was the strange person asking in return for all of their books?

5. Adams discovers that condoms are referred to as a ________ in China.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Analyze and describe Professor Zhou.

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

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

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

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