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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Darwin collect traveling around Argentina?
(a) fresh fruit to take back to the Beagle
(b) leaves, parasites, and ledgends
(c) common rocks and precious stones
(d) many species of quadrupeds, birds, lizards and snakes

2. What is a sporting way gauchos sometimes dismount?
(a) step off a horse that is going down
(b) slip off the back end of the horse
(c) jump off a gallopiing horse
(d) do a flip off the horse at a sudden stop

3. What is the guanaco Darwin sees on the way to the Sauce military outpost?
(a) a black toad with a red underbelly
(b) a large bird like a condor
(c) the wild version of the domesticated llama
(d) an extremely large lizard

4. What is the composition of most of the rock formations on the Brazilian coast?
(a) marble
(b) limestone
(c) granite
(d) iron

5. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?
(a) by meteors
(b) by floating icebergs
(c) by volcanic eruptions
(d) by seismic activity

6. What do Gen. Rosa's soldiers do after killing the adult natives?
(a) Barbecue the natives.
(b) Feed the natives to the crocodiles.
(c) Scalp the natives.
(d) They keep the children to sell as slaves.

7. At Botofogo Bay, what does Darwin find that interests him?
(a) new kinds of bees
(b) many species of planaria (flatworms)
(c) many species of birds
(d) strange flesh eating fish

8. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?
(a) collects insects within the forest
(b) catch up on his sleep
(c) go hungry
(d) climbs trees

9. What does Darwin compare to the taste of veal?
(a) puma meat
(b) armadillo meat
(c) llama meat
(d) lizard meat

10. What does the kingfisher use to collect its food?
(a) a high sound that paralyzes fish
(b) sharp talons to catch small fish
(c) a scissor beak used to skim the water and catch small fish
(d) sharp eyesight to spot fish near the surface

11. Sailing away from Rio de Janeiro, what does Darwin see?
(a) a pod of whales
(b) giant squid
(c) shark infested waters
(d) hundreds of porpoises

12. In addition to the volcanic formation of St. Domingo, what does Darwin notice about the island?
(a) a band of chalk
(b) large mud floes
(c) evidence of diamond formations
(d) strange stratas of slate

13. Where does Darwin see a rocky, steep hill jutting about 1,000 feet into the sky?
(a) Fernando Noronha Island
(b) St. domingo
(c) St. Paul's Rocks
(d) Cape de Verd islands

14. What are two important items used by the gauchos?
(a) the lazo (lasso) and the bola
(b) rifles and bows
(c) knives and pistols
(d) blow guns and spears

15. What does Darwin find that thrives in the area around the salt lakes?
(a) a species of birds
(b) a species of mammals
(c) a species of snakes
(d) a species of worms

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the dates of Charles Darwin's life span?

2. What large bird does Darwin shoot up the Santa Cruz River?

3. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?

4. What animal life does Darwin observe on the trail?

5. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?

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