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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 is the best moment of the river trip for Alex?

2. Who does Mauro Carias refuse to identify?

3. Why are piranhas useful?

4. What has made Alex brave enough to swim in the Amazon without fear?

5. What practical joke does Alex recall Kate playing on him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What kind of father is John Cold?

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

5. How did Nadia become multilingual?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why metal and many objects of everyday use to Alex such as cell phones, watches, and compasses, are useless in the Amazon jungle.

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