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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who demonstrates their prowess with their spears launched with throwing sticks?
(a) Australian cowboys
(b) Australian soldiers
(c) Australian school children
(d) Australian aborigines

2. What is it in which a large wooden spoon seems to dance to the rhythm of the music being played?
(a) a wedding ceremony
(b) an entertainment for children
(c) a superstitious play put on by the natives
(d) a war dance put on to frighten the Beagle crew

3. Arriving in Matavai Bay, what do they see coming toward the Beagle?
(a) floating logs from a recent tsunami
(b) Tahitians swimming out to greet them
(c) schools of porpoises
(d) many canoes launching from Tahiti

4. Where is the Beagle after passing through the Strait of Magellan?
(a) headed toward New Zealand
(b) the mouth of an unnamed river
(c) the relatively calm Pacific Ocean
(d) the Antarctic Sea

5. Where does Darwin spend the night after descending the Blue Mountain plateau?
(a) at a mission
(b) at a sheep ranch
(c) at a cotton plantation
(d) at a modern inn

6. What is the stormy place the Beagle visits where the people raise pigs and potatoes and catch fish?
(a) the island of Chiloe
(b) the Isle of Man
(c) the island of Santiago
(d) the Virgin Islands

7. What does Darwin observe along the rivers of the Andes?
(a) the color of the water
(b) the poverty of the people
(c) the calmness of the water
(d) the richness of mineral resources

8. What does Darwin say is too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect?
(a) Australia
(b) New Zealand
(c) Tahiti
(d) Tasmania

9. Why must they stop regularly while ascending Peuquenes ridge?
(a) because of the thin air
(b) because the mules get tired
(c) because the rock formations shift
(d) because of plants Darwin discovers

10. How are farms operated in Australia as Darwin rides through the countryside?
(a) with forced labor from convicted felons
(b) with the use of child labor
(c) by large families who do all the work
(d) by large numbers of horseback managers

11. What does Darwin see that is the size of a rabbit but looks like a kangaroo?
(a) a kangaroo cat
(b) a jackalope
(c) a kangaroo rat
(d) a jack rabbit

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

13. What is the modern name of the large island off the eastern coast of Africa, known at the time Darwin was there as the Isle of France?
(a) Gibraltar
(b) Mauritius
(c) Zanzibar
(d) Ceylon

14. What is a principal industry of Chile that Darwin observes?
(a) mining copper and gold
(b) ship building
(c) jewelry making
(d) iron smelting

15. What feeds the inhabitants' pigs and a large kind of crab on Keeling Island?
(a) bananas
(b) wild rice
(c) berry bushes
(d) coconut trees

Short Answer Questions

1. What disturbs Darwin about the corn harvest in the area?

2. How does Darwin compare the natives of New Zealand to the Tahitians?

3. From where do many of the people living in Port Louis come?

4. Where does Darwin particularly admire the view?

5. To what does Darwin compare the convict slave laborers in Australia?

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