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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 Amazon fish grows to the size of a carpet?

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

3. What has Professor LeBlanc spent the last several years pursuing?

4. Why was Alex told not to say "Walimai"?

5. Who is described as looking like a stereotypical wild game hunter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Nadia become multilingual?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss fear as a theme in this story. Explain the advice on overcoming fear Alex receives from Kate and from Nadia, and the advice he remembers from his father and offers to Nadia when she faces her own fear. Which characters are governed by fears? Which are not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the People of the Mist dealt with the death of a loved one, and the ways in which these rituals differ from those of Western civilization.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the understanding of death among the Amazon natives. Use examples such as the presence of Walimai's wife, and the rite of unokaimu.

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