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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does the Amazon beast have on humans around him?
(a) They are hypnotized.
(b) They never recover from the shock.
(c) Their memories are wiped and they forget having seen him.
(d) They faint or are paralyzed from his odor.

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

3. What are the visible activities in Santa Maria de la Lluvia?
(a) Diamond hunting and waiting.
(b) Waiting and smuggling exotic birds.
(c) Cooking and waiting.
(d) Smuggling exotic birds and diamond hunting.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the expedition searching for?

2. What do the travelers eat that Alex has never seen as food?

3. Who does Mauro Carias refuse to identify?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are others unable to see Walimai's traveling companion?

2. Why is Alex's dog, Poncho, unusual?

3. Why does Ludovic Leblanc's attitude toward women offend Kate and Omayra Torres?

4. How have the Amazon Indians escaped enslavement and destruction?

5. How did Nadia become multilingual?

6. Why is Alex upset by seeing his father shave his mother, Lisa's, head?

7. What kind of father is John Cold?

8. What kinds of problems does Kate believe there are?

9. How does Alex's experience in New York prepare him for his trip to the Amazon?

10. What does Padre Valdomero's experience with the Beast reveal about the creature?

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