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

2. For what is the Rio Negro named?
(a) Its canopy of shade.
(b) Its sediment.
(c) Its deadly snakes.
(d) Its obsidian.

3. What is Ludovic Leblanc's profession?
(a) Writer.
(b) Anthropologist.
(c) Entrepreneur.
(d) Photographer.

4. What do the travelers eat that Alex has never seen as food?
(a) Roasted monkey.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Fried alligator.
(d) Insects.

5. What are the natives who live along the Amazon called?
(a) Caboclos.
(b) Indios.
(c) Amazonians.
(d) Negritos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of problems does Kate believe there are?

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

3. What is a surucucu?

4. What does Kate give Alex to replace the losses from Morgana's theft?

5. Who does Mauro Carias refuse to identify?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the book Alex reads convince him that the Amazon Indians are not civilized?

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

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

5. What kind of father is John Cold?

6. Why is Mauro Carias anxious to capture the Beast?

7. How have those who have seen the Beast been traumatized by the experience?

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

9. What does Morgana take from Alex, and what does she give him?

10. What is Kate trying to teach Alex by leaving him to make his way from the airport to her apartment?

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