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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 most surprises Alex that people can do without?

2. What are the visible activities in Santa Maria de la Lluvia?

3. What was Karakawe hired to do for Ludovic Leblanc?

4. What is Ludovic Leblanc's profession?

5. What is a surucucu?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has Alex changed by the end of the story? What brought about the changes?

Essay Topic 2

Explain what new manners and social etiquette Alex has to learn to get along with those who are native to the Amazon. Tell why these adaptations are important.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Alex's idea of what it means to be civilized, as he explains it in Chapter Four, with the ideas of Kate or Padre Valdomero, using quotations from the text. Which point of view is closer to your own?

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