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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The children on Labuan Bajo in chapter Here Be Chickens were playing with a one-legged ________.
2. According to Douglas Adams, there are no ________ in Madagascar or in Papua New Guinea.
3. Mark Carwardine explains that the best way to catch a Komodo dragon is to have a ________ that has been dead for ________ days.
4. According to Mark Carwardine, there are only _______ Kakapos still alive.
5. Adams informs the reader that a young female gorilla called ________, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicemia in August 1988.
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Kiri and Moose as discussed in the chapter, Here Be Chickens.
2. What is the significance of the lack of woodpeckers in Madagascar?
3. Analyze and describe the Kakapo.
4. Discuss the irony Adams saw surrounding the history of lemurs.
5. Define primary rain forest and its importance to the ecological system.
6. Discuss the poaching problem described in the chapter, Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.
7. Analyze the Northern White rhinoceros of Czechoslovakia.
8. Describe the first thing Adams and Carwardine saw in the customs hut in Zaire.
9. Illustrate the other two people sharing the hut with Adams and Carwardine in the Virunga Volcanoes.
10. Compare and contrast Adams' view of Bali to that of David Attenborough's.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In a well-organized essay, compare and contrast an endangered species to a threatened species. Use specific examples from the text to support your essay.
Essay Topic 2
Clearly identify the connection between the term "assumptions" and the chapter Blind Panic.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in response to the following question found in Mark's Epilogue: Does it really matter if the Yangtze River dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?" State your opinion and support your position with references from the book.
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