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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. According to Carwardine, the population of the Wild Pink pigeons on Mauritius had ________.
2. What was the name of the non-round island near Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean?
3. What was the strange person carrying with them in the beginning of the story the Sibylline books?
4. According to Adams in the first sentence of chapter Blind Panic, ________ are the things you don't know you're making.
5. According to Carwardine, there are only ______ elephants left in Africa due to poachers.
Short Essay Questions
1. Analyze the Tiananmen Gate.
2. Analyze the two new species of lemur found in Madagascar, according to the chapter Mark's Epilogue.
3. What two odd things did Adams find about the music he heard while in China? Explain.
4. What is the significance of the title Sifting Through the Embers?
5. What occurs when they send the old beggar woman away?
6. Analyze the importance of the reincarnation of the drowned princess to the Chinese culture, as described in Blind Panic.
7. What does the note in the hotel's directory of guest services state according to Adams in the chapter Blind Panic?
8. Analyze one of the problems with breeding birds in captivity.
9. What is Mark Carwardine's response to the question: "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?"
10. Describe and identify Pink as detailed in the chapter Rare, or Medium Rare.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the meaning of the track and bowl system, as it relates to the book, Last Chance to See. How does Adams describe the track and bowl system? Why is it so important?
Essay Topic 2
Write a research paper on the Aye-aye. Explain the major changes that have occurred since the publishing of Last Chance to See.
Essay Topic 3
Clearly identify the connection between the term "assumptions" and the chapter Blind Panic.
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