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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes Darwin and his gaucho companion to a mountain called the Sierra de la Ventana?
(a) a military guide
(b) a local rancher
(c) a friendly native
(d) a Portuguese priest

2. What does Darwin speculate about the continents?
(a) a land bridge across what is now the Bering Strait
(b) volcanic anctions in all of them
(c) shifts in the earth's teutonic plates
(d) why they are so different

3. What is the Casarita meaning little house builder?
(a) a snake that builds mounds of rock
(b) a kind of rabbit that nests in trees
(c) a bird that digs long holes into its underground nest
(d) a species of armadillo

4. Where do seals and penguins surround the ship and make noises that resemble cattle?
(a) just of the coast from Rio de Janeiro
(b) off the coast of Antarctica
(c) headed north from Rio de Janeiro
(d) the Plata estuary

5. What animal life does Darwin observe on the trail?
(a) pumas and wolves
(b) mustangs and pheasants
(c) llamas and ostriches
(d) a rabbit-like creature called a bizcacha and a small owl

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two different styles Darwin uses in his journal?

2. What happened at Sierra Tapalguen the night before Darwin and company arrive at the nearby outpost?

3. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?

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

5. Where does Darwin see a rocky, steep hill jutting about 1,000 feet into the sky?

(see the answer key)

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