2. What turns out to be a raised plain about 3,000 feet above sea level?
(a) the Blue Mountains
(b) the Blue Mountain foothills
(c) the inland sea bed
(d) Ayers Rock

3. Where does the Beagle head after New Zealand?
(a) Indonesia
(b) Malaysia
(c) Sydney, Australia
(d) the Philippines

4. Leaving Lima, where does the Beagle sail?
(a) Baja California
(b) the Galapagos archipelago
(c) back to Chile
(d) Panama City

5. What does Darwin write about the Chilean miners?
(a) They get paid large salaries.
(b) They are allowed to keep part of what they mine.
(c) They spend all their money on drink and clothes.
(d) They work long hours and enjoy life.

6. On his second attempt, what is Capt. Fitz Roy able to navigate successfully?
(a) the Antarctic Channel
(b) the Sea of Sighs
(c) the Strait of Magellan
(d) the Great Barrier Reef

7. What does Darwin see as they continue through the Andes mountains?
(a) glaciers
(b) mountain goats
(c) rock slides
(d) loose diamonds

8. What causes massive destruction and takes many lives at Valdavia?
(a) huge tsunamis
(b) landslides off the mountains
(c) the eruption of several volcanoes
(d) a cyclone

9. What theory about volcanic activity and earthquakes does Darwin form that is years ahead of his time?
(a) fault lines come from underwater volcanoes
(b) volcanoes create fault lines in the earth
(c) fissures run along the same direction as the earthquake fault line
(d) volcanic activity has nothing to do with earthquakes

10. What is located at the Bay of Valparaiso?
(a) the first of the southern islands
(b) the last Spanish trading post
(c) the primary Chilean seaport
(d) Horsetail Falls

11. What does Darwin come across that has all the trappings of an English farm?
(a) a prison farm
(b) a settlement of Dutch reformers
(c) a missionary settlement
(d) an experimental farm

12. How does Darwin describe the water at the lagoon?
(a) canary yellow
(b) light blue
(c) almost white
(d) deep green

13. What does Darwin speculate about as he observes the snow melt percolating and loosening rocks?
(a) how plants are introduced
(b) how minerals are formed
(c) how the geology develops
(d) how rich ores are found

14. What do Darwin and some crew members walk on when they visit the island of San Pedro?
(a) layers of logs several yards thick
(b) layers of dry salt
(c) soft, black sand
(d) hot rocks from a volcano

15. What must Darwin and his guide cross on the way back to Hacienda de San Isidro?
(a) a line of military guarding the border
(b) a suspension bridge made of rope and hide
(c) a rapids in a mountain river
(d) a dry, parched desert