Answers To: East Is East, West Is West By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved A. Ecuador only shares borders with Colombia and Peru. False. Vatican City is a separate sovereign nation that covers 109 acres. C. Bogotá, Colombia. Both cities are at about seventy-four degrees longitude. From east to west, the cities are Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Bogotá. A, 4. France sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States in 1803 for $15 million. B, 3. Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million. C, 1. Mexico sold the Gadsden Purchase to the United States in 1854 for $10 million. D, 2. Spain reluctantly sold Florida to the United States in 1819 for $5 million. True. The book is J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and these are the directions from the Darling home in London to Never Land. Captain Kirk liked the directions so much he used them in a Star Trek movie. D. Trinidad, which lies off the coast of Venezuela, is between ten and eleven degrees north latitude. D. Belize, which used to be known as British Honduras. B, D, A, C, E True. Sweden and Norway broke up in 1905. C. The Kuril Islands, which are made up of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, were occupied by the former Soviet Union in 1945 and are still a matter of international dispute.