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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the invisible activities in Santa Maria de la Lluvia?
(a) Diamond hunting and waiting.
(b) Smuggling birds, drugs, and weapons.
(c) Waiting and smuggling exotic birds.
(d) Cooking and waiting.

2. What unusual response is considered good manners after a meal in the Indian village?
(a) Vomiting.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Giving thanks.
(d) Burping.

3. What resource do the Indians believe will contaminate their societies?
(a) Gemstones.
(b) Oil.
(c) Metal.
(d) Quartz.

4. What women are in Mauro Carias' compound?
(a) His cooks.
(b) His personal servants.
(c) His wife and daughters.
(d) His female army officers.

5. How does gossip claim Mauro Carias gathered gold flakes?
(a) By using a divining rod.
(b) By a giant magnet.
(c) By sending chickens to eat it.
(d) By consulting a native shaman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the travelers eat that Alex has never seen as food?

2. What does Alex do with his glasses when he confronts the jaguar?

3. What is Kate's response to Alex's idea that the natives are primitive because they haven't invented the wheel?

4. What injury does Alex suffer?

5. What do the Indians believe is the cause of individualism?

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