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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Darwin speculate the craggy boulders around the mountains were moved?
2. What does Darwin do during his three-day stay in Socego?
3. Where do seals and penguins surround the ship and make noises that resemble cattle?
4. Where does Darwin spend ten weeks at the mouth of the Plata River?
5. What does Darwin see along the way where robbers hide and cattle can be lost?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the people of Uruguay receive Darwin and what does he notice there?
2. What does Darwin write about a huge bird he kills up the Santa Cruz River?
3. What is Darwin given to eat at Tapalguen River?
4. In the area of St. Fe, Darwin examines the geology. What discovery does he make there?
5. On his trip to Buenos Aires, What does Darwin have to observe?
6. What occurs in the Plata estuary?
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. What strange phenomenon occurs on the way to Port Desire and how does Darwin rationalize it?
9. What does Darwin discover in the area of Bahia Blanca after the Beagle arrives and how does he theorize about his find?
10. What does Darwin write about how the gauchos break horses?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about the contribution to scientific knowledge that came out of the voyage of the Beagle. In your essay discuss how Darwin's inquisitive mind led him to draw certain conclusions from observations he made during the 5-year circumnavigation of the world. Notice that it was his 5-week survey of the Galapagos Islands that later led to his writing THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and his idea of mutability of species.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on the value of keeping a journal. In your essay note that only observations are made in the 5-week stay on the Galapagos Islands. It was later after pondering his notes on Galapagos and reading other scientific books that Darwin used his Galapagos experience as a model for his theories in THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Be less specific and generalize more in your essay about how a well-kept journal may be of great value at some future time.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about returning home after a long journey or vacation. Define the feelings of being in familiar surroundings and sleeping in your own bed. Compare with Darwin's anxious desire to return to England after five years on the Beagle.
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