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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. Who are the people living on Tierra del Fuego?
(a) Argentinians
(b) primitive and impoverished natives
(c) abandoned African slaves
(d) Spanish settlers

2. What does Darwin see along the way where robbers hide and cattle can be lost?
(a) vast expanses of thistles
(b) thick copses
(c) many rocky caves
(d) dark hollows

3. Who are York Minster, Jemmy Button and Fuegia Basket?
(a) Crewmen on the Beagle
(b) guides on Tierra del Fuego
(c) Gauchos from Argentina
(d) Natives of the Tierra del Fuego area

4. Where does Darwin get his first walk through a rain forest?
(a) the south of Chile
(b) the Brazilian state of Bahia
(c) Fernando Noronha Island
(d) the interior of Uruguay

5. What does Darwin write that he found along the banks of the Santa Cruz River?
(a) nothing new or of great interest
(b) prehistoric fossils
(c) large apes
(d) kangaroo tracks

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a tree Darwin comes across famous among the natives?

2. What does Darwin discover had happened at El Carmen or Patagones?

3. What is Capt. Fitz Roy's plan after anchoring at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River?

4. What are the dates of Charles Darwin's life span?

5. What do Gen. Rosa's soldiers do after killing the adult natives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Darwin encounter at Las Minas and how does he size them up?

3. How is Darwin stunned by the docility of a large male slave?

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

5. What does Darwin have to say about the Brazilian rain forest?

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

7. Why is Darwin fascinated to find the flatworm in the mud around the salt lake?

8. What does Darwin discover in the area of Bahia Blanca after the Beagle arrives and how does he theorize about his find?

9. What problem ensues after the Portuguese priest makes a kill in the forest?

10. How does Darwin regard the Brazilian horses?

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