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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the strange phenomenon Darwin sees at the mountain summit?
(a) red snow
(b) ice castles
(c) black rain
(d) rock flowers

2. How does Darwin describe the town of Port Louis?
(a) as more French than Paris
(b) as shanties clustered along the shore
(c) as dangeroous and hostile
(d) as uncivilized

3. How does Darwin make it to Monte Video and the Beagle?
(a) on a packet boat
(b) on horseback
(c) on a stagecoach
(d) in a military convoy

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

5. What has Darwin observed on the 3,200 mile trip from the Galapagos?
(a) a blue whale mother and baby
(b) great white sharks circling the Beagle
(c) a maelstrom
(d) a formation of coral known as an atoll

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Darwin get to the Blue Mountains?

2. Who are York Minster, Jemmy Button and Fuegia Basket?

3. What are the two different styles Darwin uses in his journal?

4. How does Darwin describe the dress of the Chilean miners?

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

(see the answer key)

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