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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the people living on Tierra del Fuego?
(a) Argentinians
(b) primitive and impoverished natives
(c) abandoned African slaves
(d) Spanish settlers

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

3. After sailing away from Chile, where does the Beagle go?
(a) Lima, Peru
(b) Bogata, Columbia
(c) Panama city
(d) Iquique in Peru

4. Where does Darwin travel with the company of a guide and five gauchos?
(a) Amazonia
(b) Lima
(c) Machu Picchu
(d) Buenos Aires

5. What must the people do at Iquique?
(a) build strong houses
(b) import everything
(c) grow their own food
(d) fight the natives

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Darwin and his companions find at the Colorado River?

2. What keeps Darwin on board the Beagle after it sails to Lima?

3. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?

4. What does Darwin discover at the saltpeter mine?

5. Leaving Lima, where does the Beagle sail?

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