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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Darwin spend the night after descending the Blue Mountain plateau?
(a) at a sheep ranch
(b) at a cotton plantation
(c) at a mission
(d) at a modern inn

2. Why do they have a problem with making a meal at 11,000 feet?
(a) Their supplies are all frozen.
(b) There are few sticks to use for making a fire.
(c) The wind blows out their fire.
(d) Water boils at a very low temperature at this altitude.

3. Where is the Beagle after passing through the Strait of Magellan?
(a) the relatively calm Pacific Ocean
(b) headed toward New Zealand
(c) the mouth of an unnamed river
(d) the Antarctic Sea

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

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

6. How does Darwin compare the natives of New Zealand to the Tahitians?
(a) about the same
(b) more warlike and unpleasant company
(c) better educated and more peaceful
(d) shorter and less attractive

7. What does Darwin observe along the rivers of the Andes?
(a) the poverty of the people
(b) the color of the water
(c) the calmness of the water
(d) the richness of mineral resources

8. To what does Darwin compare the convict slave laborers in Australia?
(a) the slaves of Africa
(b) the conscripted military
(c) the exiles on Devil's Rock
(d) the slum dwellers of London

9. What is the strange phenomenon Darwin sees at the mountain summit?
(a) rock flowers
(b) black rain
(c) red snow
(d) ice castles

10. What does Darwin say is too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect?
(a) New Zealand
(b) Tasmania
(c) Tahiti
(d) Australia

11. What disturbs Darwin about the corn harvest in the area?
(a) the color of the corn
(b) the way it is harvested
(c) the poor quality of the corn
(d) the convict slave labor

12. What does Darwin see on the way to a saltpeter mine?
(a) Iguanas
(b) wild cattle
(c) vultures
(d) llamas

13. What does Darwin begin to notice about the different Galapagos islands?
(a) the animals and plants are all the same
(b) each island has different kinds of frogs
(c) the natural inhabitants of each island differ in slight ways
(d) the birds do not pass from one island to another

14. What keeps Darwin on board the Beagle after it sails to Lima?
(a) his lost passport
(b) the political unrest in Peru
(c) his weakened health
(d) a cholera epidemic in Peru

15. What does Darwin discover on the way back to Chile by way of the Uspallata pass north of Mendoza?
(a) quarts cliffs of many colors
(b) silicified wood in the form of standing tree trunks
(c) ruins of an ancient civilization
(d) hot springs where he stops to bathe

Short Answer Questions

1. Leaving Lima, where does the Beagle sail?

2. What provides Darwin with more evidence of the relationships between volcanic activity and earthquakes?

3. Why do Darwin and Mariano Gonzales take ten pack mules on the trek across the Andes?

4. Where do the wooden houses best withstand the effects of the massive earthquake?

5. What does Darwin discover at the saltpeter mine?

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