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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 through 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mauro Carias offer to do for Nadia?
(a) Help her to go home.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Become her godfather.
(d) Pay for her education.

2. What negative quality does Kate see in Alex?
(a) Dishonesty.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Fear.

3. What does Alex have to do to fulfill his quest?
(a) Apologize to the Beasts for disturbing their home.
(b) Capture a Beast for International Geographic.
(c) Go deep into the earth to get the water of health.
(d) Climb to the top of the tepui to get three crystal eggs.

4. What does the book Kate gives Alex contain?
(a) Health tips for adventurous travelers.
(b) Topographical maps of the Amazon basin.
(c) Information about native peoples.
(d) Pictures of Amazon flora and fauna.

5. Which of Kate's habits are bad for her health?
(a) Drinking vodka and refusing to exercise.
(b) Refusing to exercise and forgetting to eat.
(c) Drinking vodka and smoking a pipe.
(d) Smoking a pipe and forgetting to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Mormon missionaries turn back from the expedition?

2. What does Nadia have to do to fulfill her quest?

3. What does Captain Ariosto think of Father Valdomero?

4. Who does Alex envision as his future wife?

5. Why does Cesar Santos say the Amazon natives rejected Christianity?

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