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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 poisonous creatures battle in the bungalow?
(a) Black widows
(b) Scorpions
(c) Stingrays
(d) Rattlesnakes

2. What/Who is Latacunga?
(a) Native Tribe
(b) Lake
(c) Small boy
(d) Village

3. What is the most amount the raft will travel in one day?
(a) 98 miles
(b) 87 miles
(c) 64 miles
(d) 71 miles

4. What percent chance does the friend say Heyerdahl has of making the trip?
(a) 60%
(b) 40%
(c) 20%
(d) 50%

5. Where is the naval station located?
(a) Lima
(b) Guayaquil
(c) Tahiti
(d) Quito

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Heyerdahl's friend that lives in the countryside?

2. Where does the current threaten to push the raft?

3. What is Heyerdahl's profession?

4. What is the common tradition of the people of this region?

5. What breaks at the beginning of the trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Heyerdahl come to formulate the plan for the trip? What are the reactions of his friends and colleagues?

2. What is the purpose Heyerdahl presents his manuscript to Carl? What is Carl's authority?

3. What two things did the naval experts warn Heyerdahl about before the trip?

4. What was the main similarity between the cultures that further convinced Heyerdahl?

5. How do Heyerdahl and Watzinger procure the necessary items for their trip into the Andes?

6. Why was the translator of little use to Heyerdahl and Watzinger? What was the result?

7. While aboard the Kon-Tiki, one of the crew members suffers from an ailment. What is the ailment? Which crew member suffers? What is done to help?

8. What items did the first European explorers discover on the Pacific Islands?

9. What is the Peruvian President's interest in the expedition? Does the president help or hinder the expedition?

10. Heyerdahl's financing falls through and the trip is in jeopardy. How is the trip saved?

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