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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two important items used by the gauchos?
(a) blow guns and spears
(b) rifles and bows
(c) knives and pistols
(d) the lazo (lasso) and the bola

2. What small bird resembles quail in its habits and snipe in its looks?
(a) the tinochorus rumicivorous
(b) the flightless pheasant
(c) the avioticus imbicilus
(d) the South American mockingbird

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

4. What does Darwin find that thrives in the area around the salt lakes?
(a) a species of worms
(b) a species of birds
(c) a species of snakes
(d) a species of mammals

5. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?
(a) the shell of a gigantic armadillo and a fossilized horse tooth.
(b) fossilized crustations from an inland sea
(c) evidence of dinosaurs
(d) tar pits and mammoth tracks

Short Answer Questions

1. After leaving Las Minas, what does Darwin see near marble outcroppings?

2. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?

3. Where does Darwin stay at Socego?

4. What do Darwin's discoveries cause him to think about?

5. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?

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