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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the industries of the native population near the military post?
(a) making the round stones for the bolas
(b) trading horses they caught and trained
(c) making lazo, or lassos, for the gauchos
(d) weaving ponchos for gauchos

2. 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

3. What happens at Valdivia?
(a) the Beagle runs aground
(b) a massive earthquake
(c) the Beagle hits a reef
(d) a hailstorm

4. What do Darwin and some crew members walk on when they visit the island of San Pedro?
(a) layers of dry salt
(b) layers of logs several yards thick
(c) hot rocks from a volcano
(d) soft, black sand

5. What does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?
(a) the dry bed of an inland sea
(b) large reptiles that attack cattle
(c) evidence of a major earthquake
(d) the fossilized skeletons of huge animals

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin say is too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect?

2. Who are the six sailors who show up at the Beagle?

3. What is a particular riding skill of a gaucho?

4. What animal is a scavenger for hard objects it piles at the entrance to its burrows?

5. How does Darwin compare the natives of New Zealand to the Tahitians?

(see the answer key)

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