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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon Darwin's return to Buenos Aires, what is going on?
(a) a revolution
(b) a celebration
(c) an international meeting
(d) a serious drought

2. What are the two different styles Darwin uses in his journal?
(a) clergyman and scientist
(b) biologist and engineer
(c) explorer and philosopher
(d) scientist and journalist

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

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

5. After leaving Las Minas, what does Darwin see near marble outcroppings?
(a) large flocks of ostriches roaming the land
(b) kangaroos and wallabies
(c) giant land turtles
(d) pygmie hippopotamuses

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the evening meal consist of at Don Juan Fuentes' house?

2. What does Darwin discover about fifteen miles from Patagones?

3. What are two important items used by the gauchos?

4. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?

5. What is a sporting way gauchos sometimes dismount?

(see the answer key)

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