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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Darwin learn about the ostrich?
(a) the ostrich mates only once in a lifetime
(b) the ostrich swims long distances
(c) the ostrich builds nests of clay
(d) the ostrich lays six eggs at a time

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

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

4. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?
(a) the Hottentot dwellings of Southern Africa
(b) paintings of early Egypt
(c) settlements on Cape de Verd
(d) Scottish villages

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the people show hospitality and allow Darwin to stay at various outposts and ranches?

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

3. What animal is a scavenger for hard objects it piles at the entrance to its burrows?

4. What is the Casarita meaning little house builder?

5. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Darwin stunned by the docility of a large male slave?

2. What does Darwin surmise about the geology of St. Jago?

3. Describe two species of birds Darwin locates after he finds the fossils.

4. How does Darwin regard the Brazilian horses?

5. In three days at Socego, where does Darwin find insects to collect?

6. Who does Darwin encounter at Las Minas and how does he size them up?

7. Describe the problem Darwin faces when he returns to Buenos Aires.

8. At the Rio Negro, about 300 miles to the south of Maldonado, what is the evidence of political turmoil in South America?

9. What does Darwin find to write about just outside of Maldonado?

10. Why is Darwin fascinated to find the flatworm in the mud around the salt lake?

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