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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disturbs Darwin about the corn harvest in the area?
(a) the convict slave labor
(b) the color of the corn
(c) the poor quality of the corn
(d) the way it is harvested

2. How does Darwin end up bringing his own horse down?
(a) jumping over a cactus
(b) climbing up a ravine
(c) trying to lasso a steer
(d) attempting to use a bola

3. What causes massive destruction and takes many lives at Valdavia?
(a) a cyclone
(b) huge tsunamis
(c) the eruption of several volcanoes
(d) landslides off the mountains

4. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?
(a) the shell of a gigantic armadillo and a fossilized horse tooth.
(b) tar pits and mammoth tracks
(c) evidence of dinosaurs
(d) fossilized crustations from an inland sea

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin write that he found along the banks of the Santa Cruz River?

2. What does Darwin begin to notice about the different Galapagos islands?

3. What does the kingfisher use to collect its food?

4. What is the composition of the Cape de Verd Islands?

5. What does Darwin find that thrives in the area around the salt lakes?

(see the answer key)

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