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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Captain Ariosto think of Father Valdomero?

3. For what is the Rio Negro named?

4. What is Alex's weapon?

5. What did a python do to end up as a trophy on Kate's wall?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Nadia become multilingual?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare two of the girls who are important to Alex in this story. Consider Cecilia Burns, Morgana, his sisters Andrea and Nicole, and Nadia. In what was are the two you selected similar? How are they different? What does he learn from each?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways was the opinion of the expedition members about the nature of the Beast inaccurate? How did they develop inaccurate opinions? In what ways were they correct?

Essay Topic 3

What does Alex learn from his experience eating fish with the Beasts? What does this experience teach him about himself?

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