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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 do Gen. Rosa's soldiers do after killing the adult natives?
(a) Scalp the natives.
(b) They keep the children to sell as slaves.
(c) Barbecue the natives.
(d) Feed the natives to the crocodiles.

2. What are the two different styles Darwin uses in his journal?
(a) scientist and journalist
(b) clergyman and scientist
(c) explorer and philosopher
(d) biologist and engineer

3. What is one of the industries of the native population near the military post?
(a) making the round stones for the bolas
(b) trading horses they caught and trained
(c) weaving ponchos for gauchos
(d) making lazo, or lassos, for the gauchos

4. What happened at Sierra Tapalguen the night before Darwin and company arrive at the nearby outpost?
(a) an eclipse of the moon
(b) an electrical storm that set the forest ablaze
(c) a tornado a mile wide
(d) a hailstorm with hail as large as apples

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do seals and penguins surround the ship and make noises that resemble cattle?

2. What does Darwin find while exploring Cape de Verd?

3. What does Darwin collect traveling around Argentina?

4. Who takes Darwin and his gaucho companion to a mountain called the Sierra de la Ventana?

5. What small bird resembles quail in its habits and snipe in its looks?

(see the answer key)

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