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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 does Darwin find in the area of Bahia Blanca?
(a) the fossilized skeletons of huge animals
(b) evidence of a major earthquake
(c) large reptiles that attack cattle
(d) the dry bed of an inland sea

2. What is Capt. Fitz Roy's plan after anchoring at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River?
(a) to trade with natives who come in canoes
(b) to take boats up the river as far as he can
(c) to spend a few weeks fishing
(d) to anchor there for the winter

3. What is the composition of most of the rock formations on the Brazilian coast?
(a) granite
(b) limestone
(c) marble
(d) iron

4. Why is a puppy that will become a sheep dog put in with a herd to grow up?
(a) It grows up loving sheep.
(b) It grows up understanding what sheep say.
(c) It grows up believing it is a sheep.
(d) It grows up antagonistic to sheep.

5. At Botofogo Bay, what does Darwin find that interests him?
(a) new kinds of bees
(b) many species of planaria (flatworms)
(c) strange flesh eating fish
(d) many species of birds

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Brazilian villages remind Darwin of?

2. Who are the people living on Tierra del Fuego?

3. What is the composition of Sierra de la Ventana?

4. What does Darwin discover about fifteen miles from Patagones?

5. What does Darwin speculate died out on the continent long before the Spanish arrived?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. At the Rio Negro, about 300 miles to the south of Maldonado, what is the evidence of political turmoil in South America?

7. Describe two species of birds Darwin locates after he finds the fossils.

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

9. Describe the rodents Darwin encounters outside Maldonado.

10. Describe the problem with getting three boats up the Santa Cruz River.

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