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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do seals and penguins surround the ship and make noises that resemble cattle?
(a) the Plata estuary
(b) just of the coast from Rio de Janeiro
(c) headed north from Rio de Janeiro
(d) off the coast of Antarctica

3. What is the composition of the Cape de Verd Islands?
(a) tectonic geology with sparce vegetation
(b) volcanic geology with lush vegetation
(c) volcanic geology and not much vegetation
(d) tectonic geology and biological diversity

4. What is the sociological condition in Brazil that disturbs Darwin?
(a) poverty
(b) anarchy
(c) slavery
(d) hegemony

5. After leaving Las Minas, what does Darwin see near marble outcroppings?
(a) kangaroos and wallabies
(b) pygmie hippopotamuses
(c) large flocks of ostriches roaming the land
(d) giant land turtles

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two different styles Darwin uses in his journal?

2. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?

3. What does Darwin discover about fifteen miles from Patagones?

4. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?

5. Who does Darwin encounter in the village of Las Minas?

(see the answer key)

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