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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Darwin's assessment of the natives on Tierra del Fuego?
(a) They are an advanced civilization.
(b) They are too primitive to civilize.
(c) They are stupid because of inbreeding.
(d) They are intelligent enough to someday become civilized.

2. Where is the Beagle after passing through the Strait of Magellan?
(a) the mouth of an unnamed river
(b) the relatively calm Pacific Ocean
(c) the Antarctic Sea
(d) headed toward New Zealand

3. What does Darwin speculate about the continents?
(a) why they are so different
(b) a land bridge across what is now the Bering Strait
(c) volcanic anctions in all of them
(d) shifts in the earth's teutonic plates

4. What must Darwin and his guide cross on the way back to Hacienda de San Isidro?
(a) a suspension bridge made of rope and hide
(b) a dry, parched desert
(c) a line of military guarding the border
(d) a rapids in a mountain river

5. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?
(a) by meteors
(b) by seismic activity
(c) by floating icebergs
(d) by volcanic eruptions

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the host at the Hacienda de San Isidro provide for Darwin?

2. What animal is a scavenger for hard objects it piles at the entrance to its burrows?

3. What does Darwin speculate died out on the continent long before the Spanish arrived?

4. What is Capt. Fitz Roy's plan after anchoring at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River?

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

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