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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Darwin been at sea by the time he visits New Zealand?
(a) nine months
(b) four years
(c) a year and a half
(d) three years

2. What does Darwin find in relationship to his interest in plants and animals?
(a) specimens too large to take back
(b) too much diversity to classify all
(c) almost no new species
(d) strange new species

3. What is the product of the ugly palms Darwin sees going up the mountain?
(a) large dates used to feed cattle
(b) fiber for making ropes
(c) thatching for shack roofs
(d) sweet sap from which syrup is made

4. What social condition does Darwin argue against at the end of his book?
(a) poverty
(b) slavery
(c) war
(d) isolationism

5. Where does Darwin prepare to cross the Andes Mountains through the Portillo pass?
(a) at Santiago
(b) at Lima
(c) at Valparaiso
(d) at Bogota

6. What turns out to be a raised plain about 3,000 feet above sea level?
(a) the inland sea bed
(b) the Blue Mountain foothills
(c) Ayers Rock
(d) the Blue Mountains

7. On his second attempt, what is Capt. Fitz Roy able to navigate successfully?
(a) the Strait of Magellan
(b) the Great Barrier Reef
(c) the Sea of Sighs
(d) the Antarctic Channel

8. Who is the old school friend of Darwin's he stays with in Chile?
(a) Oliver Swift
(b) Robert Browning
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) Richard Corfield

9. What theory of Darwin's after observing the atolls is still considered valid today?
(a) how atolls help the ocean ecology
(b) how the atolls were formed
(c) why atolls are disappearing
(d) what makes coral grow in a circle

10. What does Darwin see as they continue through the Andes mountains?
(a) loose diamonds
(b) glaciers
(c) mountain goats
(d) rock slides

11. From where do many of the people living in Port Louis come?
(a) Algiers
(b) Morocco
(c) South Africa
(d) India

12. What must Darwin and his guide cross on the way back to Hacienda de San Isidro?
(a) a suspension bridge made of rope and hide
(b) a rapids in a mountain river
(c) a dry, parched desert
(d) a line of military guarding the border

13. What does Darwin write about the Chilean miners?
(a) They are allowed to keep part of what they mine.
(b) They spend all their money on drink and clothes.
(c) They work long hours and enjoy life.
(d) They get paid large salaries.

14. What reception does the Beagle receive at New Zealand?
(a) a lackluster welcome from one canoe
(b) a thousand canoes of Maori
(c) a war party in canoes
(d) no welcome at all

15. What feeds the inhabitants' pigs and a large kind of crab on Keeling Island?
(a) coconut trees
(b) wild rice
(c) bananas
(d) berry bushes

Short Answer Questions

1. What disturbs Darwin about the corn harvest in the area?

2. Where does Darwin particularly admire the view?

3. What does Darwin see as the disadvantages such as monetary inflation and a sense of personal anonymity in Sydney?

4. What unusual thing exists on another island some miles away from Keeling Island?

5. What does Darwin observe along the rivers of the Andes?

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