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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 does the man think Darwin is going to do?
(a) strike him
(b) make him work
(c) give him money
(d) push him into the water

2. At Botofogo Bay, what does Darwin find that interests him?
(a) many species of birds
(b) new kinds of bees
(c) many species of planaria (flatworms)
(d) strange flesh eating fish

3. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?
(a) collects insects within the forest
(b) go hungry
(c) climbs trees
(d) catch up on his sleep

4. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?
(a) evidence of dinosaurs
(b) the shell of a gigantic armadillo and a fossilized horse tooth.
(c) fossilized crustations from an inland sea
(d) tar pits and mammoth tracks

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the Beagle anchor at Tierra del Fuego island?

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

4. What does Darwin discover about fifteen miles from Patagones?

5. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?

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