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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Darwin and his guide cross on the way back to Hacienda de San Isidro?
(a) a suspension bridge made of rope and hide
(b) a dry, parched desert
(c) a line of military guarding the border
(d) a rapids in a mountain river

2. Headed back towards Chiloe, what does Darwin observe at night?
(a) the phosphorescent sea creatures
(b) a pod of whales following the ship
(c) the volcanic activity of mount Corcovado
(d) the clarity of the stars

3. What keeps Darwin on board the Beagle after it sails to Lima?
(a) a cholera epidemic in Peru
(b) his weakened health
(c) the political unrest in Peru
(d) his lost passport

4. What theory about volcanic activity and earthquakes does Darwin form that is years ahead of his time?
(a) volcanoes create fault lines in the earth
(b) volcanic activity has nothing to do with earthquakes
(c) fault lines come from underwater volcanoes
(d) fissures run along the same direction as the earthquake fault line

5. How does Darwin surmise the butterflies and insects got to where the Beagle is?
(a) following the scent of fresh fruit on the Beagle
(b) chased out to sea by insect eating birds
(c) blown out to sea rather than being on a migration
(d) migrating across the Pacific Ocean toward Asia

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Darwin and his Tahitian guides able to get inland on the island?

2. How does Darwin describe the dress of the Chilean miners?

3. What causes the different colored water Darwin sees after leaving Bahia?

4. What is the strange phenomenon Darwin sees at the mountain summit?

5. What is the product of the ugly palms Darwin sees going up the mountain?

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