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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. How many miles did the author have to go on his journey, as indicated in the opening of Chapter 19?
(a) 3,740.
(b) 2,225.
(c) 1,352.
(d) 500.

2. Who is the goddess that the hiking guide to the site at Machu Picchu asked the travelers to pray to?
(a) Cusi Yupanqui.
(b) Jacaranda.
(c) Pachacuti.
(d) Pachamama.

3. What kind of bicycle did the author ride on his journey?
(a) A Royal Enfield Himalayan.
(b) A Bajaj Avenger Cruise.
(c) A Royal Enfield Thunderbird.
(d) A Surley Long Haul Trucker.

4. What is the title of Chapter 18?
(a) "A New Continent."
(b) "The Cathedral Sits on the Temple."
(c) "All By My Argentina."
(d) "Cocaine and Cute Little Mushrooms."

5. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) "New Blood into Bolivia."
(b) "The Cathedral Sits on the Temple."
(c) "A New Continent."
(d) "Sex Hotels and Here Comes Mom."

Short Answer Questions

1. How far is La Dorada said to be from Medellin in Chapter 13?

2. Where did Cyrus grow up?

3. What is the title of Chapter 16?

4. What movie did the author watch with his friends in their hotel room at the first hotel where they stayed in Patagonia?

5. Whose body was found in Mexico in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Weston and the author go camping outside Medellin? What was this experience like?

2. What happened when the indigenous woman showed Weston and the author a remote camping spot in Chapter 15?

3. How did the author and Weston cross the Darien Gap?

4. How is Laura described in the narrative?

5. How is Salta described?

6. Why did tensions begin mounting between the author and Weston in Chapter 15?

7. What issues did the author and Weston have with their passports going to Columbia?

8. How is Wayne described in Chapter 11?

9. How is the Darien Gap described?

10. How did the author culminate his journey?

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