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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the evening meal consist of at Don Juan Fuentes' house?
(a) only a variety of vegetables
(b) barbecued goat and wine
(c) fried eggs and flying fish
(d) nothing but meat and water

2. What animals had been introduced on East Falkland Island?
(a) goats and koalas
(b) kangaroos and ostriches
(c) sheep and house cats
(d) a herd of cattle and rabbits

3. After leaving the Santa Cruz River, where does the Beagle make its next stop?
(a) the Galapogas Islands
(b) Baja California
(c) East Falkland Island
(d) Panama

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

5. What do Darwin's discoveries cause him to think about?
(a) the pre-historic geology
(b) species unknown in Europe
(c) species that have become extinct
(d) the many different kins of one species

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

7. How does Darwin attempt to communicate with a large black man on a ferry?
(a) points to what he wants
(b) talks loud and makes hand gestures
(c) draws pictures
(d) pantomimes

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

9. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?
(a) a camp set up especially for him
(b) in a Brazilian fort
(c) at a British outpost
(d) a small town named Maldonado

10. What is the guanaco Darwin sees on the way to the Sauce military outpost?
(a) a black toad with a red underbelly
(b) a large bird like a condor
(c) the wild version of the domesticated llama
(d) an extremely large lizard

11. What animal life does Darwin observe on the trail?
(a) llamas and ostriches
(b) pumas and wolves
(c) a rabbit-like creature called a bizcacha and a small owl
(d) mustangs and pheasants

12. What does Darwin find while exploring Cape de Verd?
(a) fossils of extremely large land animals
(b) a cemetery with headstones dating back to the 16th century
(c) an amazing variety of strange plants
(d) remains of a forgotten 14th century civilization

13. How does Darwin end up bringing his own horse down?
(a) climbing up a ravine
(b) attempting to use a bola
(c) jumping over a cactus
(d) trying to lasso a steer

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

15. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?
(a) listen to stories about native religion
(b) little else but observe the natives
(c) catch up on entries in his journal
(d) classify the various fish caught in the Colorado

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Darwin and the soldiers make their way toward Buenos Aires?

2. Sailing away from Rio de Janeiro, what does Darwin see?

3. Where does Darwin travel with the company of a guide and five gauchos?

4. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?

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

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