View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Tony and Milly going?
(a) To Paris.
(b) To the Riviera.
(c) To the seashore in Brighton.
(d) To a seedy motel in Essex.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Messinger decide to do?

3. Of whom does Tony not see much before she leaves?

4. How does Tony's weekend farce turn out?

5. Where does Tony meet his traveling companion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Tony again entrusted his life to someone for whom that trust is not valid?

2. What do Messigner and Tony decide to do and do you think they make the best choice?

3. How long is it before Tony and Messinger are able to talk to the men of the village about what they want?

4. How has John Beaver fared through the saga of Tony and Brenda's failed marriage?

5. Why do you think Tony decides to go away for awhile?

6. How does Brenda take the news of her son's death?

7. What is the symbolic significance of the first book that Tony reads?

8. How is it that Tony seems to be the "bad" guy in a number of ways?

9. What seems to be contrasted in this chapter?

10. What is Tony's position in Brenda's social circle by the end of this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,279 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample