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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Amazon beast do when it encounters people?
(a) It kidnaps them.
(b) It destroys their homes and property.
(c) It teaches them a new language.
(d) It kills them.

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

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

4. What incident causes Alex to become angry and demolish his own bedroom?
(a) His mother going to the hospital.
(b) His father's shaving his mother's head.
(c) His sister crying about his mother's illness.
(d) His mother passing out in the kitchen.

5. What does Kate give Alex to replace the losses from Morgana's theft?
(a) Money for the trip.
(b) Sincere sympathy.
(c) His grandfather's flute.
(d) Her old camera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Alex still have after Morgana's theft?

2. What is the expedition searching for?

3. What does Alex believe are his own best qualities?

4. What is Ludovic Leblanc's profession?

5. What do the Amazon natives regard as worse than death?

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