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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, An Expedition Is Born.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of the person who rejects the manuscript?
(a) Anthropologist
(b) Navigator
(c) Zoologist
(d) Ethnologist

2. What event interrupted Heyerdahl's research?
(a) Assassination of JFK
(b) World War II
(c) Stock market crash
(d) World War I

3. What Lake is mentioned in regard to the story?
(a) Lake Titicaca
(b) Lake Huron
(c) Lake Panam
(d) Lake Victoria

4. The friend previously engaged in what profession?
(a) Engineer
(b) Meteorologist
(c) Sailor
(d) Doctor

5. Heyerdahl impatiently waits for results on what item?
(a) Navigator's license
(b) Manuscript
(c) Marriage
(d) Car repair

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the chief god of the island?

2. Heyerdahl's theory revolves around what region?

3. Who was considered to be the original, a founder of the inhabitants on the Pacific Islands?

4. What does Heyerdahl require to construct the raft?

5. Heyerdahl went on an expedition to which island?

(see the answer key)

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