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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the evening meal consist of at Don Juan Fuentes' house?
(a) barbecued goat and wine
(b) nothing but meat and water
(c) fried eggs and flying fish
(d) only a variety of vegetables

2. How does Darwin describe Gen. Rosas?
(a) as a masterful horseman who dresses like the gauchos
(b) as a disturbed man who wants to be in Buenos Aires
(c) as a tall thin man who does not wear his uniform well
(d) as a fat, jolly man who loves to talk

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

4. After leaving Las Minas, what does Darwin see near marble outcroppings?
(a) kangaroos and wallabies
(b) large flocks of ostriches roaming the land
(c) giant land turtles
(d) pygmie hippopotamuses

5. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?
(a) at a British outpost
(b) a small town named Maldonado
(c) a camp set up especially for him
(d) in a Brazilian fort

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Darwin and his companions find at the Colorado River?

2. What does Darwin observe that is formed by lightning hitting the hills and traversing through the sand?

3. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?

4. Who does Darwin encounter in the village of Las Minas?

5. What is the composition of most of the rock formations on the Brazilian coast?

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