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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What causes the different colored water Darwin sees after leaving Bahia?
2. What is Darwin told about climatic events in the area?
3. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?
4. Where do the people show hospitality and allow Darwin to stay at various outposts and ranches?
5. After leaving the Santa Cruz River, where does the Beagle make its next stop?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the problem Darwin faces when he returns to Buenos Aires.
2. On his trip to Buenos Aires, What does Darwin have to observe?
3. Describe the beginning of Darwin's trip around the world.
4. How does Darwin regard the Brazilian horses?
5. What does Darwin discover in the area of Bahia Blanca after the Beagle arrives and how does he theorize about his find?
6. Why is Darwin fascinated to find the flatworm in the mud around the salt lake?
7. In the area of St. Fe, Darwin examines the geology. What discovery does he make there?
8. What does Darwin have to say about the Brazilian rain forest?
9. What does Darwin write about how the gauchos break horses?
10. How is Darwin stunned by the docility of a large male slave?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about how you see the character of Charles Darwin from what he writes in his journal. Find illustrations to describe him as a person, his sensibilities, and his spirit of adventure. In your essay discuss how his public image as a man who challenges established religion is different from the way he actually is.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about returning home after a long journey or vacation. Define the feelings of being in familiar surroundings and sleeping in your own bed. Compare with Darwin's anxious desire to return to England after five years on the Beagle.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the contribution to scientific knowledge that came out of the voyage of the Beagle. In your essay discuss how Darwin's inquisitive mind led him to draw certain conclusions from observations he made during the 5-year circumnavigation of the world. Notice that it was his 5-week survey of the Galapagos Islands that later led to his writing THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and his idea of mutability of species.
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