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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. How do the Amazon natives feel about wealth?

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

3. What bothers the travelers most while in the boat?

4. What is Professor Leblanc's opinion of the Amazon natives?

5. What is Professor LeBlanc's opinion about humanoid beasts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of father is John Cold?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Nadia become multilingual?

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

10. Why is Cecilia Burns an important character although we never see her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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

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