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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 is the name of the ship that Darwin took on a mapping expedition that would take him completely around the world and would last five years?
(a) The Beagle.
(b) The Bangle.
(c) The Bronco.
(d) The Beetle.

2. Who owns the Bahia?
(a) A pair of old German sisters.
(b) A pair of young German sisters.
(c) A pair of old German brothers.
(d) A pair of young German brothers.

3. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Aristotle.

4. What is the name of the archipelago of volcanic peaks due west of Guayaquil?
(a) The Fiji Islands.
(b) The Galapagos Islands.
(c) The Kuril Islands.
(d) The Solomon Islands.

5. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator die?

2. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?

3. According to the narrator, what made marriage so difficult?

4. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?

5. How many species of finch are on the Island of Santa Rosalia?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, how is Charles Darwin described?

2. When does Adolf von Kleist tell Mary Hepburn that he might be a carrier of Huntington's chorea?

3. Why does the narrator choose the Captain's head to get into in Chapter 23?

4. Give two theories that are discussed for how animals arrived on the Galapagos Islands.

5. Compare and contrast the Bahia De Darwin to the Beagle.

6. How does Mary Hepburn recognize the Island of Santa Rosalia in Chapter 24?

7. Who stated, "The dry and parched surface, being heated by the noon-day sun, gave to the air a close and sultry feeling, like that from a stove: we fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly?" What is this statement in reference to?

8. Discuss the three examples the narrator uses to show how people can become independent from their parents.

9. Why do blue-footed boobies dance the way they do in courtship?

10. Summarize James Wait's childhood as it is described in Chapter 3.

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