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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Beaver ask his mother?
(a) If she will buy him tickets to go to South America.
(b) If she can get Brenda to leave him alone.
(c) If Brenda can live with her.
(d) If she has a job for Brenda.

2. What does Tony miss while he is drugged?
(a) A letter from Brenda.
(b) The marriage of Mr. Todd and a village woman.
(c) The arrival and departure of a search party.
(d) Nothing.

3. What strikes terror into Rosa's people?
(a) The battle cries of the Pie Wie all around them.
(b) An anaconda that is forty feet long.
(c) A mechanical mouse Dr. Messinger shows them.
(d) Tony's gun.

4. How does Tony feel during his travels upstream in a small boat.
(a) Exhilerated.
(b) Dejected.
(c) Quite uncomfortable.
(d) Apprehensive.

5. Who arrives first at the meeting point for Tony and Milly?
(a) Jock.
(b) Two detectives.
(c) Milly.
(d) Tony.

6. What happens when Tony and Messinger awaken?
(a) They find the Macushi have stripped the camp and run.
(b) They hear a shaman chanting.
(c) They are surrounded by Pie Wie.
(d) It is raining heavily.

7. Where is Jenny going?
(a) To Polly Cockpurse's where Brenda is.
(b) To France.
(c) To Wales.
(d) To the theater.

8. What do Tony and Messinger do?
(a) Beat each other up in a quarrel.
(b) Travel downstream alone.
(c) Turn back.
(d) Give up.

9. What is wrong with Tony?
(a) He is despondent.
(b) He has broken his leg.
(c) He is going blind.
(d) He has a fever that keeps recurring.

10. Where does Messinger want to go?
(a) To the land of the Pie-Wie tribe.
(b) To South America.
(c) To Port au Prince.
(d) To Florida.

11. Who ends up going with Dr. Messinger and Tony?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Ten men.
(c) A group of the villagers.
(d) No one.

12. Why does the young woman become unfriendly to Tony?
(a) When he mentions Brenda.
(b) When he makes a move on her.
(c) When he says something that indicates his prejudice.
(d) She does not become unfriendly.

13. What young woman does Tony meet?
(a) Therese de Vitre.
(b) Suzanne Vinne.
(c) Thomasina de Victory.
(d) Tracy de Compe.

14. What does Rosa say when Tony talks to her about going further on?
(a) Her tribe does not go into Pie-Wie lands.
(b) Maybe if the rest of their group arrives.
(c) They will but it will be very dangerous.
(d) It will cost many more cigarettes.

15. What propels Tony to start a dialog with Brenda?
(a) A letter from John Beaver.
(b) His grief about John Andrew.
(c) A letter from Jock.
(d) Nothing in particular.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tony meet his traveling companion?

2. What does Brenda ask about Tony's trip?

3. What does Tony slip to the man who visits the camp?

4. Who is Tony's new partner?

5. Where is Tony and Messinger's second base camp?

(see the answer keys)

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