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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. Where is Cyrus's father from?
(a) China.
(b) Laos.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Texas.

2. How many days did the author's trip with Weston on the sailboat to Columbia take?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

3. Why did the author and Weston have to take a bus to Lima?
(a) They were dehydrated.
(b) Their bike chains broke.
(c) Their bike tubes blew.
(d) They had been robbed.

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

5. How many miles did the author have to go on his journey in the opening of Chapter 18?
(a) 1,645.
(b) 4,630.
(c) 6,350.
(d) 3,580.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 19?

2. Whose body was found in Mexico in Chapter 18?

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

4. What is the name of the sailboat that the author and Weston took to Columbia?

5. What is the title of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How is the Darien Gap described?

9. How is the setting of Salento described?

10. How did the author and Weston cross the Darien Gap?

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