The Voyage of the Beagle Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Voyage of the Beagle Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arriving in Matavai Bay, what do they see coming toward the Beagle?
(a) Tahitians swimming out to greet them
(b) schools of porpoises
(c) many canoes launching from Tahiti
(d) floating logs from a recent tsunami

2. What is the strange phenomenon Darwin sees at the mountain summit?
(a) red snow
(b) ice castles
(c) rock flowers
(d) black rain

3. What does Darwin begin to notice about the different Galapagos islands?
(a) the birds do not pass from one island to another
(b) each island has different kinds of frogs
(c) the natural inhabitants of each island differ in slight ways
(d) the animals and plants are all the same

4. How long has Darwin been at sea by the time he visits New Zealand?
(a) nine months
(b) three years
(c) four years
(d) a year and a half

5. Where does Darwin find mostly desert with a few mines of low quality here and there?
(a) the eastern part of Chile
(b) the central part of Chile
(c) the coastal part of Chile
(d) the northern part of Chile

6. What theory of Darwin's after observing the atolls is still considered valid today?
(a) how the atolls were formed
(b) what makes coral grow in a circle
(c) why atolls are disappearing
(d) how atolls help the ocean ecology

7. Who is the old school friend of Darwin's he stays with in Chile?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Robert Browning
(c) Oliver Swift
(d) Richard Corfield

8. What impresses Darwin about the Tahitians?
(a) their modesty of dress
(b) their body covering tattoos
(c) their friendliness and good looks, despite their tattoos
(d) their warlike nature

9. How does Darwin describe the water at the lagoon?
(a) deep green
(b) almost white
(c) canary yellow
(d) light blue

10. Walking along a road cut through the landscape, what does Darwin reflect on?
(a) how civilization improves a land area
(b) how at one time the land was covered with forests
(c) how far the Beagle has traveled
(d) how devoid of resources New Zealand is

11. What is the product of the ugly palms Darwin sees going up the mountain?
(a) thatching for shack roofs
(b) fiber for making ropes
(c) large dates used to feed cattle
(d) sweet sap from which syrup is made

12. What does Darwin write about the Chilean miners?
(a) They spend all their money on drink and clothes.
(b) They work long hours and enjoy life.
(c) They are allowed to keep part of what they mine.
(d) They get paid large salaries.

13. How are Darwin and his Tahitian guides able to get inland on the island?
(a) climbing over several mountains
(b) through jungle pathways
(c) along river valleys
(d) coming around from the other side

14. What unusual thing exists on another island some miles away from Keeling Island?
(a) fresh water wells
(b) strange monoliths
(c) hot spring geysers
(d) deciduous trees

15. How does Darwin describe the town of Port Louis?
(a) as uncivilized
(b) as shanties clustered along the shore
(c) as more French than Paris
(d) as dangeroous and hostile

Short Answer Questions

1. Who demonstrates their prowess with their spears launched with throwing sticks?

2. What does Darwin come across that has all the trappings of an English farm?

3. Leaving Lima, where does the Beagle sail?

4. What does Darwin see as they continue through the Andes mountains?

5. What does Darwin see as the disadvantages such as monetary inflation and a sense of personal anonymity in Sydney?

(see the answer keys)

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