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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the gauchos prepare for a meal on the island?
(a) a spit roasted wild goat
(b) puma steaks
(c) a boneless roast with the hide still on the meat
(d) a soup made with a large turtle

2. What do Darwin and his companions find at the Colorado River?
(a) an abandoned military fort
(b) a ferry to get them to the other side
(c) a military encampment headed by General Rosas
(d) many fishing villages

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

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

5. How does the Santa Cruz River bed change as Darwin moves upstream?
(a) from sand and silt to polished granite
(b) from stones to black volcanic rock
(c) from stones to marshy sand
(d) from red clay to smooth stones

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin begin to notice about the different Galapagos islands?

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

3. What does Darwin see at Punta Alta?

4. How does Darwin describe Gen. Rosas?

5. What does Darwin see at Chatham Island?

(see the answer key)

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