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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Beagle after passing through the Strait of Magellan?
(a) the relatively calm Pacific Ocean
(b) headed toward New Zealand
(c) the Antarctic Sea
(d) the mouth of an unnamed river

2. After sailing away from Chile, where does the Beagle go?
(a) Panama city
(b) Bogata, Columbia
(c) Lima, Peru
(d) Iquique in Peru

3. Why must they stop regularly while ascending Peuquenes ridge?
(a) because of the thin air
(b) because of plants Darwin discovers
(c) because the mules get tired
(d) because the rock formations shift

4. How does Darwin describe Gen. Rosas?
(a) as a masterful horseman who dresses like the gauchos
(b) as a tall thin man who does not wear his uniform well
(c) as a disturbed man who wants to be in Buenos Aires
(d) as a fat, jolly man who loves to talk

5. Who are the six sailors who show up at the Beagle?
(a) survivors of a shipwreck
(b) runaways from a whaling ship
(c) guards from a prisoner ship
(d) keepers of a lighthouse

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the people living on Tierra del Fuego?

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

3. How does Darwin make it to Monte Video and the Beagle?

4. What animal is a scavenger for hard objects it piles at the entrance to its burrows?

5. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?

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