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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is located at the Bay of Valparaiso?
(a) the last Spanish trading post
(b) Horsetail Falls
(c) the first of the southern islands
(d) the primary Chilean seaport

3. What does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?
(a) evidence of a major earthquake
(b) the fossilized skeletons of huge animals
(c) large reptiles that attack cattle
(d) the dry bed of an inland sea

4. Who are the six sailors who show up at the Beagle?
(a) survivors of a shipwreck
(b) runaways from a whaling ship
(c) guards from a prisoner ship
(d) keepers of a lighthouse

5. What does Darwin see along the way where robbers hide and cattle can be lost?
(a) vast expanses of thistles
(b) thick copses
(c) dark hollows
(d) many rocky caves

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sociological condition in Brazil that disturbs Darwin?

2. What do reddish brown clouds turn out to be?

3. What is a particular riding skill of a gaucho?

4. What do Darwin and his companions find at the Colorado River?

5. What do the gauchos prepare for a meal on the island?

(see the answer key)

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