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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the dates of Charles Darwin's life span?
(a) Aug. 12, 1829 to Feb. 20, 1903
(b) Jan. 6, 1818 to Dec. 3, 1900
(c) Feb. 12, 1809 to April 19, 1882
(d) May 14, 1850 to June 19, 1922

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

3. Why can two dead monkeys not be shaken out of a tree?
(a) they are wedged in the branches
(b) the grip of their large hands
(c) the grip of their prehensile tails
(d) they are held by other monkeys

4. Where does Darwin get his first walk through a rain forest?
(a) Fernando Noronha Island
(b) the interior of Uruguay
(c) the south of Chile
(d) the Brazilian state of Bahia

5. 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) a volcano had erupted fifty miles away
(d) forest fires had decimated the area

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Darwin travel with the company of a guide and five gauchos?

2. What does Darwin find that thrives in the area around the salt lakes?

3. What is Darwin's profession?

4. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?

5. What does Darwin see at Punta Alta?

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