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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Darwin observed on the ship that lets out silk into the wind and takes flight over the ocean?
(a) spiders
(b) sea gulls
(c) beetles
(d) silkworms

2. How does Darwin make it to Monte Video and the Beagle?
(a) on horseback
(b) in a military convoy
(c) on a stagecoach
(d) on a packet boat

3. What is Darwin's profession?
(a) a 19th century map maker
(b) a 19th century chemist
(c) a 19th century ship's captain
(d) a 19th century naturalist

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

5. What is one of the industries of the native population near the military post?
(a) making the round stones for the bolas
(b) weaving ponchos for gauchos
(c) making lazo, or lassos, for the gauchos
(d) trading horses they caught and trained

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

7. Who does Darwin accompany while exploring around Botofogo Bay?
(a) an old Portuguese priest
(b) Capt. Fitz Roy
(c) his hired native guide
(d) a large bearded monkey

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

9. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?
(a) classify the various fish caught in the Colorado
(b) listen to stories about native religion
(c) little else but observe the natives
(d) catch up on entries in his journal

10. What is a particular riding skill of a gaucho?
(a) standing up in the saddle at full gallop
(b) riding on the underside of the horse to avoid detection
(c) riding for days without getting out of the saddle
(d) going around a post at full gallop touching a finger to the post

11. What does Darwin find while exploring Cape de Verd?
(a) a cemetery with headstones dating back to the 16th century
(b) an amazing variety of strange plants
(c) remains of a forgotten 14th century civilization
(d) fossils of extremely large land animals

12. Why can two dead monkeys not be shaken out of a tree?
(a) the grip of their prehensile tails
(b) they are wedged in the branches
(c) they are held by other monkeys
(d) the grip of their large hands

13. What does Darwin speculate died out on the continent long before the Spanish arrived?
(a) armadillos
(b) horses
(c) tigers
(d) boars

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

15. What does the man think Darwin is going to do?
(a) push him into the water
(b) give him money
(c) make him work
(d) strike him

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sociological condition in Brazil that disturbs Darwin?

2. Where does Darwin see a rocky, steep hill jutting about 1,000 feet into the sky?

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

4. What does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?

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

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