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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the return to Rio de Janeiro, where does Darwin stay that is rich in resources for the naturalist?
(a) in the center of the city
(b) in a cottage on Botofogo Bay
(c) in a luxury hotel on Botofogo Bay
(d) with the governor of Rio de Janeiro

2. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?
(a) trees, cacti, or boulders
(b) elephants, lions, and kangaroos
(c) birds, monkeys, or crocodiles
(d) game, cattle, horses, or humans

3. How do Darwin and the soldiers make their way toward Buenos Aires?
(a) moving from outpost to outpost
(b) moving down and following the coastline
(c) riding llamas over the mountains
(d) mostly hiking over the mountains

4. Leaving Monte Video, where is the Beagle headed?
(a) for Port Desire on the coast of Patagonia
(b) for North America
(c) for Alaska
(d) for Baja California

5. What is Darwin's assessment of the natives on Tierra del Fuego?
(a) They are too primitive to civilize.
(b) They are intelligent enough to someday become civilized.
(c) They are stupid because of inbreeding.
(d) They are an advanced civilization.

6. What does Darwin find while exploring Cape de Verd?
(a) an amazing variety of strange plants
(b) a cemetery with headstones dating back to the 16th century
(c) remains of a forgotten 14th century civilization
(d) fossils of extremely large land animals

7. Where does Darwin see camphor, pepper, cinnamon and clove trees, along with breadfruit, jaca and mango?
(a) deep in the Brazilian jungle
(b) the edge of the sea
(c) the Botanical Garden
(d) in a Brazilian marketplace

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

9. Who does Darwin encounter in the village of Las Minas?
(a) the military
(b) the gauchos
(c) some bandits
(d) the Incas

10. Where does the Beagle anchor at Tierra del Fuego island?
(a) the Bay of Good Hope
(b) the Bay of Bengal
(c) the Bay of Good Success
(d) the Bay of Santiago

11. What is the guanaco Darwin sees on the way to the Sauce military outpost?
(a) the wild version of the domesticated llama
(b) an extremely large lizard
(c) a black toad with a red underbelly
(d) a large bird like a condor

12. What is Capt. Fitz Roy's plan after anchoring at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River?
(a) to trade with natives who come in canoes
(b) to anchor there for the winter
(c) to spend a few weeks fishing
(d) to take boats up the river as far as he can

13. What do Darwin's discoveries cause him to think about?
(a) the many different kins of one species
(b) species unknown in Europe
(c) the pre-historic geology
(d) species that have become extinct

14. What animal life does Darwin observe on the trail?
(a) llamas and ostriches
(b) a rabbit-like creature called a bizcacha and a small owl
(c) mustangs and pheasants
(d) pumas and wolves

15. What are the only two insects Darwin locates on St. Paul's Rocks?
(a) grasshoppers and flies
(b) moths and ants
(c) ticks and fleas
(d) spiders and parasites brought in on the birds

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?

2. What does Darwin discover about fifteen miles from Patagones?

3. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?

4. Why is a puppy that will become a sheep dog put in with a herd to grow up?

5. How does Darwin describe Gen. Rosas?

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