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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Amazon natives do with their captives in the past, according to Professor Leblanc?
(a) They ate them.
(b) They kept them as slaves.
(c) They killed them.
(d) They made them rulers.

2. What Amazon fish grows to the size of a carpet?
(a) The flounder.
(b) The piranha.
(c) The manta ray.
(d) The river dolphin.

3. What does Alex believe are his own worst qualities?
(a) Short attention span and unkindness.
(b) Skepticism and a bad temper.
(c) Impatience and dependence.
(d) Selfishness and arrogance.

4. What is Kate's response to Alex's idea that the natives are primitive because they haven't invented the wheel?
(a) There are many kinds of intelligence.
(b) They have much more sophisticated tools.
(c) They have no need for wheels in their environment.
(d) They are indeed primitive, but kindly.

5. How does Kate define experience?
(a) When you learn just before you need it.
(b) What you learn just after you need it.
(c) What you never learn until you need it.
(d) What you learn just when you need it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kate believe is the only way to learn?

2. How long does Ludovic Leblanc estimate it will take to trap the beast?

3. Who does Mauro Carias refuse to identify?

4. Who does Walimai travel with?

5. Padre Valdomero knew his encounter with the beast was real, because ______________________ lingered.

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