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

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

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

4. What is the best moment of the river trip for Alex?
(a) Swimming with a dolphin.
(b) Trying interesting new foods.
(c) Laughing with his grandmother.
(d) Sleeping under the stars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cesar Santos believe the Amazon natives need no conversion?

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

3. Padre Valdomero believes the Amazon natives are advanced on a _________________plane.

4. What is Ludovic Leblanc's profession?

5. What do the conspirators hope to get?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Cecilia Burns an important character although we never see her?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Kate show love for Alex in spite of her apparent disregard for his well-being?

9. Why was Padre Valdomero's village burned to the ground?

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

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