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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. Why is Mauro Carias anxious to capture the beast?

2. Who does Omayra Torres represent?

3. Who does Mauro Carias refuse to identify?

4. How does Kate teach Alex not to smoke?

5. Why do the Mormon missionaries turn back from the river trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ludovic Leblanc's attitude toward women offend Kate and Omayra Torres?

2. Why are others unable to see Walimai's traveling companion?

3. Why is Alex upset by seeing his father shave his mother, Lisa's, head?

4. Why was Padre Valdomero's village burned to the ground?

5. Why does Kate believe that the Indians of the Amazon are indeed civilized?

6. Why does the book Alex reads convince him that the Amazon Indians are not civilized?

7. What is Kate trying to teach Alex by leaving him to make his way from the airport to her apartment?

8. How do the different members of the expedition believe the Beast should be dealt with?

9. Why is Mauro Carias anxious to capture the Beast?

10. Why is Cecilia Burns an important character although we never see her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the understanding of death among the Amazon natives. Use examples such as the presence of Walimai's wife, and the rite of unokaimu.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why metal and many objects of everyday use to Alex such as cell phones, watches, and compasses, are useless in the Amazon jungle.

Essay Topic 3

Compare two of the girls who are important to Alex in this story. Consider Cecilia Burns, Morgana, his sisters Andrea and Nicole, and Nadia. In what was are the two you selected similar? How are they different? What does he learn from each?

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