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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is a puppy that will become a sheep dog put in with a herd to grow up?
(a) It grows up believing it is a sheep.
(b) It grows up loving sheep.
(c) It grows up antagonistic to sheep.
(d) It grows up understanding what sheep say.

2. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?
(a) Scottish villages
(b) the Hottentot dwellings of Southern Africa
(c) paintings of early Egypt
(d) settlements on Cape de Verd

3. At Botofogo Bay, what does Darwin find that interests him?
(a) new kinds of bees
(b) many species of planaria (flatworms)
(c) many species of birds
(d) strange flesh eating fish

4. Upon Darwin's return to Buenos Aires, what is going on?
(a) a revolution
(b) a celebration
(c) a serious drought
(d) an international meeting

5. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?
(a) game, cattle, horses, or humans
(b) elephants, lions, and kangaroos
(c) birds, monkeys, or crocodiles
(d) trees, cacti, or boulders

Short Answer Questions

1. What marine creature does Darwin discover off of St. Domingo that he keeps in his cabin?

2. What are the only two insects Darwin locates on St. Paul's Rocks?

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

4. Where does Darwin travel with the company of a guide and five gauchos?

5. What does Darwin write that he found along the banks of the Santa Cruz River?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the people of Uruguay receive Darwin and what does he notice there?

2. Describe the beginning of Darwin's trip around the world.

3. What does Darwin find to write about just outside of Maldonado?

4. What does Darwin surmise about the geology of St. Jago?

5. What strange phenomenon occurs on the way to Port Desire and how does Darwin rationalize it?

6. Relate the circumstances of returning natives of Tierra del Fuego island.

7. What occurs in the Plata estuary?

8. How does Darwin react to the selling of children as slaves as opposed to what the soldiers and the settlers think about it.

9. What does Darwin write about a huge bird he kills up the Santa Cruz River?

10. How does Darwin surmise that animals similar to Old World animals ended up in the Americas?

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