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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leaving Lima, where does the Beagle sail?
(a) Baja California
(b) back to Chile
(c) Panama City
(d) the Galapagos archipelago

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

3. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?
(a) a cyclone had flattened all the vegetation
(b) a volcano had erupted fifty miles away
(c) forest fires had decimated the area
(d) wild natives had attacked and destroyed the ranches

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

5. What animals had been introduced on East Falkland Island?
(a) sheep and house cats
(b) goats and koalas
(c) a herd of cattle and rabbits
(d) kangaroos and ostriches

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the industries of the native population near the military post?

2. What does Darwin see on the way to a saltpeter mine?

3. Why is a tree Darwin comes across famous among the natives?

4. What does Darwin write that he found along the banks of the Santa Cruz River?

5. What does Darwin see at Chatham Island?

(see the answer key)

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