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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leaving Lima, where does the Beagle sail?
(a) the Galapagos archipelago
(b) Panama City
(c) Baja California
(d) back to Chile

2. After sailing away from Chile, where does the Beagle go?
(a) Lima, Peru
(b) Bogata, Columbia
(c) Panama city
(d) Iquique in Peru

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

4. What does Darwin see at Chatham Island?
(a) huge tortoises weighing up to 200 pounds
(b) thriving fishing villages
(c) large pelicans along the coast
(d) rock dwelling monkeys

5. What is one of the industries of the native population near the military post?
(a) making the round stones for the bolas
(b) trading horses they caught and trained
(c) weaving ponchos for gauchos
(d) making lazo, or lassos, for the gauchos

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Santa Cruz River bed change as Darwin moves upstream?

2. Why is a tree Darwin comes across famous among the natives?

3. What does Darwin write that he found along the banks of the Santa Cruz River?

4. Where does the Beagle anchor at Tierra del Fuego island?

5. How does Darwin describe the dress of the Chilean miners?

(see the answer key)

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