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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 two important items used by the gauchos?
(a) blow guns and spears
(b) the lazo (lasso) and the bola
(c) knives and pistols
(d) rifles and bows

2. What is the guanaco Darwin sees on the way to the Sauce military outpost?
(a) a large bird like a condor
(b) a black toad with a red underbelly
(c) the wild version of the domesticated llama
(d) an extremely large lizard

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

4. What is the composition of Sierra de la Ventana?
(a) mostly granite
(b) largely limestone
(c) mostly ignecious rock
(d) largely white quartz

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sailing away from Rio de Janeiro, what does Darwin see?

2. At Botofogo Bay, what does Darwin find that interests him?

3. What does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?

4. What do the inhabitants of a ranch north of the Polanco River find interesting when Darwin arrives?

5. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?

(see the answer key)

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