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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. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?
(a) in a Brazilian fort
(b) a small town named Maldonado
(c) at a British outpost
(d) a camp set up especially for him
2. Who does Darwin accompany while exploring around Botofogo Bay?
(a) an old Portuguese priest
(b) Capt. Fitz Roy
(c) his hired native guide
(d) a large bearded monkey
3. What happened at Sierra Tapalguen the night before Darwin and company arrive at the nearby outpost?
(a) a hailstorm with hail as large as apples
(b) a tornado a mile wide
(c) an electrical storm that set the forest ablaze
(d) an eclipse of the moon
4. What do the gauchos bring down using their bolas?
(a) birds, monkeys, or crocodiles
(b) game, cattle, horses, or humans
(c) elephants, lions, and kangaroos
(d) trees, cacti, or boulders
5. How does Darwin make it to Monte Video and the Beagle?
(a) on a packet boat
(b) on a stagecoach
(c) in a military convoy
(d) on horseback
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Darwin collect traveling around Argentina?
2. What causes the different colored water Darwin sees after leaving Bahia?
3. Who are York Minster, Jemmy Button and Fuegia Basket?
4. What does Darwin find in the Santa Fe area?
5. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?
Short Essay Questions
1. What problem ensues after the Portuguese priest makes a kill in the forest?
2. What occurs in the Plata estuary?
3. Describe the rodents Darwin encounters outside Maldonado.
4. What does Darwin write about how the gauchos break horses?
5. What strange phenomenon occurs on the way to Port Desire and how does Darwin rationalize it?
6. What does Darwin have to say about the Brazilian rain forest?
7. How does Darwin react to the selling of children as slaves as opposed to what the soldiers and the settlers think about it.
8. How does Darwin regard the Brazilian horses?
9. Briefly tell about the waterfowl Darwin catalogs on East Falkland Island.
10. What does Darwin find to write about just outside of Maldonado?
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