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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, An Expedition Is Born.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Heyerdahl is summoned to which government facility?
(a) Supreme Court
(b) White House
(c) Capitol Hill
(d) Pentagon

2. What Lake is mentioned in regard to the story?
(a) Lake Victoria
(b) Lake Panam
(c) Lake Titicaca
(d) Lake Huron

3. Who was able to escape from the massacre?
(a) Chief Cari
(b) Munthe-Kaas
(c) Kon Tiki
(d) Heyerdahl

4. Who rejects Heyerdahl's manuscript?
(a) Wilhelm
(b) Herman
(c) Carl
(d) Bjorn

5. The ancient story involves the building of what objects?
(a) Easter Island statues
(b) Stonehenge
(c) Villages
(d) Pyramids

Short Answer Questions

1. Which city does Heyerdahl choose to present his theory?

2. In what increments do the Polynesians recount their history?

3. Heyerdahl refers to technologies developed in what time period? What event interrupted Heyerdahl's research? World War II World War I Stock market crash Assassination of JFK Which city does Heyerdahl choose to present his theory? New York Tokyo London Honolulu

4. What is the common tradition of the people of this region?

5. The chief god was related to what element?

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