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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 the gauchos bring down using their bolas?
(a) game, cattle, horses, or humans
(b) elephants, lions, and kangaroos
(c) trees, cacti, or boulders
(d) birds, monkeys, or crocodiles

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

3. What does Darwin see at Punta Alta?
(a) a cat called gatito
(b) a squirrel called rocky
(c) a man called horse
(d) a skunk called a zorillo

4. Where does Darwin see camphor, pepper, cinnamon and clove trees, along with breadfruit, jaca and mango?
(a) in a Brazilian marketplace
(b) the Botanical Garden
(c) deep in the Brazilian jungle
(d) the edge of the sea

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Darwin stay at Socego?

2. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?

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

4. Why does sea salt work better than lake salt as a preservative?

5. How does Darwin end up bringing his own horse down?

(see the answer key)

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