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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?
(a) game, cattle, horses, or humans
(b) elephants, lions, and kangaroos
(c) trees, cacti, or boulders
(d) birds, monkeys, or crocodiles

2. Where does Darwin see a rocky, steep hill jutting about 1,000 feet into the sky?
(a) Fernando Noronha Island
(b) Cape de Verd islands
(c) St. domingo
(d) St. Paul's Rocks

3. After leaving the Santa Cruz River, where does the Beagle make its next stop?
(a) East Falkland Island
(b) Panama
(c) the Galapogas Islands
(d) Baja California

4. Why do they have a problem with making a meal at 11,000 feet?
(a) Water boils at a very low temperature at this altitude.
(b) There are few sticks to use for making a fire.
(c) Their supplies are all frozen.
(d) The wind blows out their fire.

5. On the way after Monte Video, what surrounds the Beagle?
(a) schools of dolphins
(b) man eating sharks
(c) a swarm of butterflies and other flying insects
(d) hostile natives in canoes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Darwin's profession?

3. Where do the people show hospitality and allow Darwin to stay at various outposts and ranches?

4. What causes massive destruction and takes many lives at Valdavia?

5. What do reddish brown clouds turn out to be?

(see the answer key)

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