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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How are Darwin and his Tahitian guides able to get inland on the island?
(a) climbing over several mountains
(b) coming around from the other side
(c) through jungle pathways
(d) along river valleys

4. Exploring the Chiloe eastern coastline, what does Darwin observe?
(a) the nearly extinct dodo bird
(b) strange granite boulders in the sea
(c) albatros nests
(d) the volcano Orsono

5. Who is the old school friend of Darwin's he stays with in Chile?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Oliver Swift
(c) Richard Corfield
(d) Robert Browning

6. Why do Darwin and Mariano Gonzales take ten pack mules on the trek across the Andes?
(a) in case they get lost
(b) in case they become snowed in
(c) in case they stay longer than planned
(d) in case they have to hire extra guides

7. From where do many of the people living in Port Louis come?
(a) Algiers
(b) South Africa
(c) India
(d) Morocco

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

9. What provides Darwin with more evidence of the relationships between volcanic activity and earthquakes?
(a) the temperature of the water after the tsunami
(b) the destruction after the Valdivia earthquake
(c) the shape of the coast after the volcanoes erupt
(d) the stories people tell about past disasters

10. How does Darwin get to the Blue Mountains?
(a) in a buckboard wagon
(b) across the Australian desert
(c) across the Nepean River in a ferry boat
(d) riding a camel

11. How does Darwin describe the dress of the Chilean miners?
(a) European
(b) functional
(c) peculiar
(d) picturesque

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

13. 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 dry, parched desert
(d) a rapids in a mountain river

14. Why does the Beagle stop for three days at the Chonos Archipelago?
(a) to replenish its supplies
(b) to look for crew members
(c) because of a storm
(d) because of sickness

15. What keeps Darwin on board the Beagle after it sails to Lima?
(a) his weakened health
(b) the political unrest in Peru
(c) his lost passport
(d) a cholera epidemic in Peru

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin find in relationship to his interest in plants and animals?

2. What does Darwin speculate about as he observes the snow melt percolating and loosening rocks?

3. What does Darwin see at Chatham Island?

4. On his second attempt, what is Capt. Fitz Roy able to navigate successfully?

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

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