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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the inhabitants of a ranch north of the Polanco River find interesting when Darwin arrives?
(a) Darwin's compass and maps and phosphorous matches
(b) the odd clothes that Darwin wears
(c) the pictures Darwin draws of plants and insects
(d) the color of Darwin's skin

2. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?
(a) forest fires had decimated the area
(b) a cyclone had flattened all the vegetation
(c) wild natives had attacked and destroyed the ranches
(d) a volcano had erupted fifty miles away

3. What is Darwin's profession?
(a) a 19th century naturalist
(b) a 19th century map maker
(c) a 19th century chemist
(d) a 19th century ship's captain

4. Where does Darwin travel with the company of a guide and five gauchos?
(a) Lima
(b) Machu Picchu
(c) Buenos Aires
(d) Amazonia

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin see at Punta Alta?

2. What do Darwin's discoveries cause him to think about?

3. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?

4. After the return to Rio de Janeiro, where does Darwin stay that is rich in resources for the naturalist?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Darwin surmise that animals similar to Old World animals ended up in the Americas?

2. What does Darwin find to write about just outside of Maldonado?

3. Heading toward St. Fe, about 300 miles north of Buenos Aries along the Parana River, describe the strange animal Darwin observes.

4. Briefly tell about the waterfowl Darwin catalogs on East Falkland Island.

5. Describe the problem with getting three boats up the Santa Cruz River.

6. At the first stop after Sao Jago, what are Darwin's observations?

7. How do the people of Uruguay receive Darwin and what does he notice there?

8. What does Darwin surmise about the geology of St. Jago?

9. How does Darwin describe the behavior of the guanaco he finds at the ruins of an old Spanish settlement?

10. What does Darwin write about a huge bird he kills up the Santa Cruz River?

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