View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kate believe is the only way to learn?
(a) Read about the achievements of others.
(b) Find out for yourself.
(c) Listen to your elders.
(d) Study the mistakes of others.

2. 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.

3. What resource was taken most frequently from the rainforest during the 19th century?
(a) Exotic birds.
(b) Rubber.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Wood.

4. What is Professor LeBlanc's opinion about humanoid beasts?
(a) They are terrifying.
(b) They are smarter than humans.
(c) They do not exist.
(d) They are nothing to fear.

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

6. Why are piranhas useful?
(a) They frighten larger predators away.
(b) They eat algae.
(c) They keep tourists out of the water.
(d) They keep the Amazon free of garbage.

7. What does Morgana teach Alex by stealing his possessions?
(a) She teaches him to be generous and unafraid.
(b) She teaches him to be wary and less trusting.
(c) She teaches him to use drugs and relax.
(d) She teaches him to hate everyone.

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

9. Who is Rahakanarewa?
(a) A shaman.
(b) A talking parrot.
(c) A native Amazon chieftain.
(d) A spirit cannibal bird.

10. What does Captain Ariosto think of Father Valdomero?
(a) He thinks Father Valdomero is a genius.
(b) He thinks Father Valdomero is evil.
(c) He thinks Father Valdomero is a saint.
(d) He thinks Father Valdomero is crazy.

11. How does Kate help Alex prepare for their expedition to the Amazon?
(a) She takes away his cell phone and music player.
(b) She makes him do calesthenics.
(c) She prepares him exotic dishes.
(d) She doesn't pick him up at the airport.

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

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

14. What quality does Alex believe Kate has too much of?
(a) Trust.
(b) Courage.
(c) Calmness.
(d) Daring.

15. Why does Alex enjoy mountain climbing?
(a) He likes to be away from the city.
(b) He likes to spend time by himself.
(c) He likes to breathe the clean air at high altitudes.
(d) He likes to feel that he can control his body and his mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Amazon fish grows to the size of a carpet?

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

3. Why do the Mormon missionaries turn back from the river trip?

4. How do the Amazon natives feel about wealth?

5. What is the expedition searching for?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 584 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample