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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Darwin see camphor, pepper, cinnamon and clove trees, along with breadfruit, jaca and mango?
(a) the edge of the sea
(b) the Botanical Garden
(c) deep in the Brazilian jungle
(d) in a Brazilian marketplace

2. What does Darwin discover about fifteen miles from Patagones?
(a) a tar pit
(b) a salt lake
(c) a sand dune mountain
(d) a volcanic crater

3. What are the Kauai pine?
(a) trees as large as giant redwoods
(b) gnarled brush that covers the land
(c) trees that once grew all over the land
(d) pitiful cries of mountain wildcats

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

5. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?
(a) in a Brazilian fort
(b) a camp set up especially for him
(c) at a British outpost
(d) a small town named Maldonado

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin speculate died out on the continent long before the Spanish arrived?

2. What is located at the Bay of Valparaiso?

3. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?

4. What does the evening meal consist of at Don Juan Fuentes' house?

5. Leaving Monte Video, where is the Beagle headed?

(see the answer key)

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