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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two important items used by the gauchos?
(a) knives and pistols
(b) the lazo (lasso) and the bola
(c) rifles and bows
(d) blow guns and spears

2. What is a particular riding skill of a gaucho?
(a) riding for days without getting out of the saddle
(b) standing up in the saddle at full gallop
(c) riding on the underside of the horse to avoid detection
(d) going around a post at full gallop touching a finger to the post

3. What is the composition of most of the rock formations on the Brazilian coast?
(a) granite
(b) iron
(c) limestone
(d) marble

4. What marine creature does Darwin discover off of St. Domingo that he keeps in his cabin?
(a) a cuttlefish
(b) an octopus
(c) a sea slug
(d) a starfish

5. What happened at Sierra Tapalguen the night before Darwin and company arrive at the nearby outpost?
(a) an electrical storm that set the forest ablaze
(b) an eclipse of the moon
(c) a hailstorm with hail as large as apples
(d) a tornado a mile wide

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Darwin compare to the taste of veal?

4. Where does Darwin see a rocky, steep hill jutting about 1,000 feet into the sky?

5. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?

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