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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 does Darwin learn about the ostrich?
(a) the ostrich lays six eggs at a time
(b) the ostrich mates only once in a lifetime
(c) the ostrich swims long distances
(d) the ostrich builds nests of clay

2. What small bird resembles quail in its habits and snipe in its looks?
(a) the flightless pheasant
(b) the tinochorus rumicivorous
(c) the avioticus imbicilus
(d) the South American mockingbird

3. What is an important occupation for the gauchos?
(a) carrying the mail
(b) making whisky
(c) trapping pumas
(d) breaking horses

4. What large bird does Darwin shoot up the Santa Cruz River?
(a) an ostrich
(b) an eagle
(c) a pelican
(d) a condor

5. Who takes Darwin and his gaucho companion to a mountain called the Sierra de la Ventana?
(a) a friendly native
(b) a Portuguese priest
(c) a military guide
(d) a local rancher

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only two insects Darwin locates on St. Paul's Rocks?

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

3. What causes the different colored water Darwin sees after leaving Bahia?

4. What does the evening meal consist of at Don Juan Fuentes' house?

5. Leaving Monte Video, where is the Beagle headed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Darwin not stay long at Bahia Blanca?

2. What problem ensues after the Portuguese priest makes a kill in the forest?

3. What does Darwin write about how the gauchos break horses?

4. Why is Darwin fascinated to find the flatworm in the mud around the salt lake?

5. How does Darwin regard the Brazilian horses?

6. What does Darwin have to say about the Brazilian rain forest?

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

8. In the area of St. Fe, Darwin examines the geology. What discovery does he make there?

9. In three days at Socego, where does Darwin find insects to collect?

10. How does Darwin react to the selling of children as slaves as opposed to what the soldiers and the settlers think about it.

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