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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 see camphor, pepper, cinnamon and clove trees, along with breadfruit, jaca and mango?
(a) deep in the Brazilian jungle
(b) the edge of the sea
(c) the Botanical Garden
(d) in a Brazilian marketplace

2. What does Darwin find that thrives in the area around the salt lakes?
(a) a species of worms
(b) a species of birds
(c) a species of snakes
(d) a species of mammals

3. What has Darwin observed on the ship that lets out silk into the wind and takes flight over the ocean?
(a) sea gulls
(b) beetles
(c) spiders
(d) silkworms

4. What do Darwin and his companions find at the Colorado River?
(a) many fishing villages
(b) an abandoned military fort
(c) a ferry to get them to the other side
(d) a military encampment headed by General Rosas

5. What is the composition of Sierra de la Ventana?
(a) mostly granite
(b) largely white quartz
(c) largely limestone
(d) mostly ignecious rock

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?

2. What is Darwin's profession?

3. What does Darwin have to do for two days at the military encampment?

4. Where does the Beagle anchor at Tierra del Fuego island?

5. What animal is a scavenger for hard objects it piles at the entrance to its burrows?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly tell about the waterfowl Darwin catalogs on East Falkland Island.

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

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

4. In three days at Socego, where does Darwin find insects to collect?

5. What occurs in the Plata estuary?

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

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

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

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

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