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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 most surprises Alex that people can do without?
(a) Telephones.
(b) Music players.
(c) Televisions.
(d) Malls.

2. What does Alex believe are his own worst qualities?
(a) Impatience and dependence.
(b) Skepticism and a bad temper.
(c) Short attention span and unkindness.
(d) Selfishness and arrogance.

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

4. Padre Valdomero believes the Amazon natives are advanced on a _________________plane.
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Physical.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Emotional.

5. How does Kate teach Alex not to smoke?
(a) By promising him a reward if he never smoked.
(b) By showing him medical records.
(c) By making him smoke cigars.
(d) By introducing him to a cigarette addict.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Kate's habits are bad for her health?

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

3. What does Captain Ariosto think of Father Valdomero?

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

5. What is Kate's response to Alex's idea that the natives are primitive because they haven't invented the wheel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the different members of the expedition regard as the most important resources in the Amazon basin?

2. What theory does Kate accept about the origin of the Amazon Indians?

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

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

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

6. How do the different members of the expedition believe the Beast should be dealt with?

7. Why does Kate employ harsh teaching methods with Alex?

8. What kind of father is John Cold?

9. Why does Cesar Santos say that the Amazon Indians rejected Christianity?

10. Why does Kate believe that the Indians of the Amazon are indeed civilized?

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