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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the people show hospitality and allow Darwin to stay at various outposts and ranches?
(a) Uruguay
(b) Paraguay
(c) Peru
(d) Galapogas

2. What does the man think Darwin is going to do?
(a) strike him
(b) give him money
(c) make him work
(d) push him into the water

3. What does Darwin speculate died out on the continent long before the Spanish arrived?
(a) boars
(b) armadillos
(c) tigers
(d) horses

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Darwin find in small herds after arriving at Port Desire?

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

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

4. Where does Darwin see camphor, pepper, cinnamon and clove trees, along with breadfruit, jaca and mango?

5. What is a sporting way gauchos sometimes dismount?

(see the answer key)

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