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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. After leaving the Santa Cruz River, where does the Beagle make its next stop?
(a) East Falkland Island
(b) Panama
(c) the Galapogas Islands
(d) Baja California

2. After the return to Rio de Janeiro, where does Darwin stay that is rich in resources for the naturalist?
(a) in the center of the city
(b) with the governor of Rio de Janeiro
(c) in a luxury hotel on Botofogo Bay
(d) in a cottage on Botofogo Bay

3. How does Darwin make it to Monte Video and the Beagle?
(a) in a military convoy
(b) on a packet boat
(c) on a stagecoach
(d) on horseback

4. Where do seals and penguins surround the ship and make noises that resemble cattle?
(a) headed north from Rio de Janeiro
(b) off the coast of Antarctica
(c) just of the coast from Rio de Janeiro
(d) the Plata estuary

5. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?
(a) evidence of dinosaurs
(b) tar pits and mammoth tracks
(c) the shell of a gigantic armadillo and a fossilized horse tooth.
(d) fossilized crustations from an inland sea

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?

2. What do the inhabitants of a ranch north of the Polanco River find interesting when Darwin arrives?

3. What has Darwin observed on the ship that lets out silk into the wind and takes flight over the ocean?

4. On the way to Santa Fe, what makes the road very difficult, especially for the many carts with huge wheels?

5. Where does Darwin get his first walk through a rain forest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the problem Darwin faces when he returns to Buenos Aires.

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

4. Heading toward St. Fe, about 300 miles north of Buenos Aries along the Parana River, describe the strange animal Darwin observes.

5. Describe the rodents Darwin encounters outside Maldonado.

6. At the first stop after Sao Jago, what are Darwin's observations?

7. On his trip to Buenos Aires, What does Darwin have to observe?

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

9. How does Darwin describe the behavior of the guanaco he finds at the ruins of an old Spanish settlement?

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

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