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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 practical joke does Alex recall Kate playing on him?

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

3. What did the Amazon natives do with their captives in the past, according to Professor Leblanc?

4. What effect does the Amazon beast have on humans around him?

5. What does Rahakanarewa predict for the expedition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of father is John Cold?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 how Alex gains power during his initiation ceremony. What does he take from his father, his mother, and the jaguar? How is he different when the ceremony is concluded?

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