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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do seals and penguins surround the ship and make noises that resemble cattle?
(a) off the coast of Antarctica
(b) just of the coast from Rio de Janeiro
(c) the Plata estuary
(d) headed north from Rio de Janeiro

2. What is an important occupation for the gauchos?
(a) making whisky
(b) trapping pumas
(c) carrying the mail
(d) breaking horses

3. What does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?
(a) the dry bed of an inland sea
(b) evidence of a major earthquake
(c) the fossilized skeletons of huge animals
(d) large reptiles that attack cattle

4. What small bird resembles quail in its habits and snipe in its looks?
(a) the South American mockingbird
(b) the tinochorus rumicivorous
(c) the flightless pheasant
(d) the avioticus imbicilus

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

6. What animals had been introduced on East Falkland Island?
(a) sheep and house cats
(b) a herd of cattle and rabbits
(c) goats and koalas
(d) kangaroos and ostriches

7. Who invites Darwin to visit an estate near Rio de Janeiro?
(a) a Brazilian general
(b) an English landowner
(c) a French explorer
(d) a wealthy Brazilian

8. Where does the Beagle anchor at Tierra del Fuego island?
(a) the Bay of Good Success
(b) the Bay of Santiago
(c) the Bay of Good Hope
(d) the Bay of Bengal

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

10. What is Darwin's assessment of the natives on Tierra del Fuego?
(a) They are stupid because of inbreeding.
(b) They are too primitive to civilize.
(c) They are intelligent enough to someday become civilized.
(d) They are an advanced civilization.

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

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

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

14. What do the gauchos prepare for a meal on the island?
(a) a boneless roast with the hide still on the meat
(b) a soup made with a large turtle
(c) a spit roasted wild goat
(d) puma steaks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Darwin find in small herds after arriving at Port Desire?

2. What do Darwin and his gaucho companion hear at the Sauce outpost?

3. What is one of the industries of the native population near the military post?

4. What affirmation does Darwin make about the earth?

5. What do the inhabitants of a ranch north of the Polanco River find interesting when Darwin arrives?

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