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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 kind of trees are described in Chapter 19 as walling in the town of Malargue?
(a) Ashes.
(b) Poplars.
(c) Birches.
(d) Oaks.

2. How many of his men did the king of Machu Picchu bring with him when he first met with Pizarro?
(a) 7,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

3. What did the man on the remote ranch bring to the author and his companions the morning after they slept on his land in Chapter 19?
(a) Breakfast burritos.
(b) Eggs with rice.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Fresh doughnuts.

4. How much money did the sailboat ride across the Darien Gap cost per person when the author looked it up in Chapter 11?
(a) $600.
(b) $400.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $500.

5. What creatures abounded at the cafe that Weston and the author hiked to in the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Wasps.
(b) Bats.
(c) Hummingbirds.
(d) Bumblebees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Laura's husband in Chapter 18?

2. What is the stretch of high prairie between the border of Bolivia to La Paz called?

3. At what elevation is Medellin said to sit in Chapter 12?

4. Approximately what is the population of Lima, according to the author in Chapter 15?

5. After spending the night in the rain in a field offered by a Peruvian woman, who rescued the author and Weston by driving them to the next town in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the author's mother meet up with him and Weston in Chapter 14? For what occasion?

2. How is Laura described in the narrative?

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

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

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

6. How is the setting of Salento described?

7. How is the Darien Gap described?

8. What deaths did the author learn about in Chapter 18?

9. How did the author culminate his journey?

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

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