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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Darwin describe the water at the lagoon?
(a) deep green
(b) light blue
(c) canary yellow
(d) almost white

2. What does the evening meal consist of at Don Juan Fuentes' house?
(a) barbecued goat and wine
(b) fried eggs and flying fish
(c) only a variety of vegetables
(d) nothing but meat and water

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

4. How does Darwin describe Gen. Rosas?
(a) as a disturbed man who wants to be in Buenos Aires
(b) as a tall thin man who does not wear his uniform well
(c) as a masterful horseman who dresses like the gauchos
(d) as a fat, jolly man who loves to talk

5. What reception does the Beagle receive at New Zealand?
(a) a lackluster welcome from one canoe
(b) a thousand canoes of Maori
(c) no welcome at all
(d) a war party in canoes

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the unusually tall people compared to other natives of the area?

2. What does Darwin see along the way where robbers hide and cattle can be lost?

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

4. Walking along a road cut through the landscape, what does Darwin reflect on?

5. What does Darwin see from the Blue Mountains?

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