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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 movie did the author watch with his friends in their hotel room at the first hotel where they stayed in Patagonia?
(a) Contagion.
(b) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
(c) World War Z.
(d) Zombieworld.

2. Where did the author's mother travel to finish the author's trip with him?
(a) Torres del Paine.
(b) Zihuatanejo.
(c) Ensenada.
(d) Zitacuaro.

3. How much rain does the Atacama Desert get yearly?
(a) 0.6 inches.
(b) 16 inches.
(c) 12 inches.
(d) 6 inches.

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

5. How many miles to go did the author have on his journey as noted in the opening of Chapter 15?
(a) 1,535.
(b) 5,723.
(c) 6,661.
(d) 3,663.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose painting arorned the wall of the Hollywood Hotel in Cali described in Chapter 14?

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

3. For how long did the author and Weston stay in Cusco?

4. How long was the bus ride that the author and Weston took with the hostel company to go camping and look for mushrooms in Chapter 12?

5. To what movie does the author compare the setting to at the campsite where he went mushroom hunting and camping in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Salta described?

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

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

6. How did the author culminate his journey?

7. Who was Atahualpa and what happened to him?

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

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

10. What did the author learn about the buildings in Panama City in Chapter 11?

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