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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kate teach Alex not to smoke?
(a) By promising him a reward if he never smoked.
(b) By introducing him to a cigarette addict.
(c) By showing him medical records.
(d) By making him smoke cigars.

2. What is a surucucu?
(a) A poisonous frog.
(b) A poisonous spider.
(c) A poisonous lizard.
(d) A poisonous snake.

3. What is Ludovic Leblanc's profession?
(a) Photographer.
(b) Entrepreneur.
(c) Anthropologist.
(d) Writer.

4. What did a python do to end up as a trophy on Kate's wall?
(a) It frightened her.
(b) It scared away her guide.
(c) It ate her Pekinese.
(d) It ate her camera.

5. What bothers the travelers most while in the boat?
(a) Rain and mosquitoes.
(b) Fog and mist.
(c) Lack of clean water.
(d) Heat and humidity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a papagayo?

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

3. Why was Alex told not to say "Walimai"?

4. What are the invisible activities in Santa Maria de la Lluvia?

5. Why does Kate believe the Amazon is dangerous to anthropologists?

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