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

2. What large bird does Darwin shoot up the Santa Cruz River?
(a) an ostrich
(b) a pelican
(c) an eagle
(d) a condor

3. What affirmation does Darwin make about the earth?
(a) life on earth is only near wateer
(b) some of the earth is inhabitable
(c) there is no life in a salt lake bed
(d) every part of the world is habitable

4. What do Gen. Rosa's soldiers do after killing the adult natives?
(a) Barbecue the natives.
(b) Scalp the natives.
(c) Feed the natives to the crocodiles.
(d) They keep the children to sell as slaves.

5. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?
(a) a camp set up especially for him
(b) a small town named Maldonado
(c) at a British outpost
(d) in a Brazilian fort

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an important occupation for the gauchos?

2. What does Darwin collect traveling around Argentina?

3. Where do the people show hospitality and allow Darwin to stay at various outposts and ranches?

4. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the area of St. Fe, Darwin examines the geology. What discovery does he make there?

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

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

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

5. What does Darwin write about how the gauchos break horses?

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

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

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

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

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

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