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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 is the elevation of Cusco?
(a) 12,000 feet.
(b) 12,700 feet.
(c) 9,000 feet.
(d) 10,000 feet.

2. When was Machu Picchu rediscovered?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1914.

3. At what elevation is Medellin said to sit in Chapter 12?
(a) 8,000 feet.
(b) 3,000 feet.
(c) 5,000 feet.
(d) 12,000 feet.

4. How many miles to go does the author have on his journey in the opening of Chapter 12?
(a) 6,363.
(b) 10,635.
(c) 8,080.
(d) 9,362.

5. What is the title of Chapter 16?
(a) "Empire Falls to Empire."
(b) "Cocaine and Cute Little Mushrooms."
(c) "A New Continent."
(d) "God on the Trail."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tallest mountain in all the Americas?

2. What is the title of Chapter 17?

3. What kind of bicycle did the author ride on his journey?

4. What did the author and his friends go on a hunt for across the grocery stores of Puno in Chapter 17?

5. How many days did the author's trip with Weston on the sailboat to Columbia take?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Darien Gap described?

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

3. What were the author's perceptions of Weston when he used cocaine?

4. How is the setting of Salento described?

5. How old was Harry Devert when he went missing? Where did he go missing?

6. Where did Weston say he was departing for soon in Chapter 15? Why?

7. Why did the author's friends join him in Chapter 16? Where did they meet up?

8. Why did Weston say he regretted doing the cocaine in Chapter 12?

9. How is Salta described?

10. Where did the author and Weston stay in Medellin? How is this setting described?

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