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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knut cook for dinner?
(a) Pilot fish
(b) Dorados
(c) Crabs
(d) Shark

2. By what are some of the crew attacked?
(a) Sharks
(b) Head hunters
(c) Eels
(d) Fire ants`

3. Which of these is not damaged during the collision?
(a) Radio
(b) Decking
(c) Logs
(d) Ropes

4. Heyerdahl compares the phosphorescence of the plankton to what object?
(a) Ghosts
(b) Lighthouse
(c) Stars
(d) Jewels

5. Squid have the unusual ability to do what?
(a) Fly
(b) Play dead
(c) Scream
(d) Cry

6. After missing the first island, the Kon-Tiki sails toward which island?
(a) Takume
(b) Raroia
(c) Fangahina
(d) Angatau

7. Heyerdahl thinks that the first voyagers may have had what color of hair?
(a) Red
(b) Blond
(c) Black
(d) White

8. Squid land on what part of the raft?
(a) Hut roof
(b) Rudder
(c) Heyerdahl's bed
(d) Oar

9. How many people live on the island?
(a) 127
(b) 154
(c) 79
(d) 223

10. What is another name for South America?
(a) Heart of Haiti
(b) The Eye Looks (toward) Heaven
(c) The Land Down Under
(d) Navel of the Islands

11. Which crew member falls overboard?
(a) Torstein
(b) Thor
(c) Knut
(d) Herman

12. The crew realizes that what object no longer matters?
(a) Presence of sharks
(b) Time
(c) Delays in the trip
(d) Losing the dinghy

13. How many miles into the trip is considered to be halfway?
(a) 2,150 miles
(b) 1,979 miles
(c) 2,000 miles
(d) 1,878 miles

14. What weapons do the crew members sleep with?
(a) Guns
(b) Bamboo poles
(c) Slingshots
(d) Machetes

15. What time of day is the first island discovered?
(a) Sunset
(b) Noon
(c) Sunrise
(d) Early evening

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of fish is known to stick to sharks?

2. Which two occupants of the ocean have the crew been warned about?

3. What is the name of the first island?

4. What reaction do the fish have to the big storm?

5. The crew learns to use what as a navigation tool?

(see the answer keys)

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