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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal is a scavenger for hard objects it piles at the entrance to its burrows?
(a) the bizcacha
(b) the iguana
(c) the packrat
(d) the toucan

2. What theory of Darwin's after observing the atolls is still considered valid today?
(a) why atolls are disappearing
(b) what makes coral grow in a circle
(c) how atolls help the ocean ecology
(d) how the atolls were formed

3. What do the inhabitants of a ranch north of the Polanco River find interesting when Darwin arrives?
(a) the odd clothes that Darwin wears
(b) Darwin's compass and maps and phosphorous matches
(c) the pictures Darwin draws of plants and insects
(d) the color of Darwin's skin

4. What does Darwin see on the way to a saltpeter mine?
(a) llamas
(b) vultures
(c) Iguanas
(d) wild cattle

5. What has meant giving up his usual social circles and going off into unknown territories to meet unforeseen hardships?
(a) Darwin's long voyage
(b) Darwin's need for adventure
(c) Darwin's post graduate education
(d) Darwin's desire to get out of England

Short Answer Questions

1. After the return to Rio de Janeiro, where does Darwin stay that is rich in resources for the naturalist?

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

3. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?

4. Sailing away from Rio de Janeiro, what does Darwin see?

5. What feeds the inhabitants' pigs and a large kind of crab on Keeling Island?

(see the answer key)

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