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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Darwin see along the way where robbers hide and cattle can be lost?
(a) thick copses
(b) dark hollows
(c) vast expanses of thistles
(d) many rocky caves

2. Why can Darwin not explore the forest of Chiloe?
(a) It is too thick to pass through.
(b) It is held sacred by the natives.
(c) It is too wet to support horse or man,
(d) It is filled with poisonous plants.

3. Sailing away from Rio de Janeiro, what does Darwin see?
(a) giant squid
(b) hundreds of porpoises
(c) a pod of whales
(d) shark infested waters

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

5. What must the people do at Iquique?
(a) build strong houses
(b) import everything
(c) fight the natives
(d) grow their own food

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Kauai pine?

2. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?

3. What has Darwin observed on the ship that lets out silk into the wind and takes flight over the ocean?

4. Who takes Darwin and his gaucho companion to a mountain called the Sierra de la Ventana?

5. Why do Darwin and Mariano Gonzales take ten pack mules on the trek across the Andes?

(see the answer key)

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