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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What large bird does Darwin shoot up the Santa Cruz River?
(a) a pelican
(b) an eagle
(c) an ostrich
(d) a condor

2. What does the man think Darwin is going to do?
(a) give him money
(b) make him work
(c) push him into the water
(d) strike him

3. What affirmation does Darwin make about the earth?
(a) life on earth is only near wateer
(b) some of the earth is inhabitable
(c) there is no life in a salt lake bed
(d) every part of the world is habitable

4. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?
(a) listen to stories about native religion
(b) classify the various fish caught in the Colorado
(c) little else but observe the natives
(d) catch up on entries in his journal

5. What animals had been introduced on East Falkland Island?
(a) kangaroos and ostriches
(b) goats and koalas
(c) a herd of cattle and rabbits
(d) sheep and house cats

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the product of the ugly palms Darwin sees going up the mountain?

2. Where is the Beagle after passing through the Strait of Magellan?

3. What is a principal industry of Chile that Darwin observes?

4. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?

5. Why can two dead monkeys not be shaken out of a tree?

(see the answer key)

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