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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 17?

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

3. What creatures abounded at the cafe that Weston and the author hiked to in the end of Chapter 13?

4. What did Weston say was the first ingredient in cocaine after coca leaf in Chapter 12?

5. What is the elevation of Cusco?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Wayne described in Chapter 11?

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

3. How is the Darien Gap described?

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

5. How is Laura described in the narrative?

6. Who was Atahualpa and what happened to him?

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

8. Who is Kelley and what were the author's feelings about her when she visited?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of white privilege and identity in To Shake the Sleeping Self. How are these themes manifested through action? How are they developed through setting? How are these themes seen symbolically in the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of religion in To Shake the Sleeping Self. What is the author's religious background? What are his perceptions of religion? How do those perceptions change in the course of the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the changes that the author undergoes as a result of his journey. How does his worldview change? How do his perceptions about religion change? How does his self-identity evolve?

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