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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What has made Alex brave enough to swim in the Amazon without fear?
(a) His experience being lost in New York.
(b) His experience with the snake.
(c) His experience with the river dolphin.
(d) His experience with Morgana.
2. Who is Rahakanarewa?
(a) A talking parrot.
(b) A spirit cannibal bird.
(c) A native Amazon chieftain.
(d) A shaman.
3. What does Kate believe is the only way to learn?
(a) Listen to your elders.
(b) Read about the achievements of others.
(c) Study the mistakes of others.
(d) Find out for yourself.
4. What kind of problems does Kate believe there are?
(a) Those that have no solution and those that solve themselves.
(b) Those that are important and those that aren't.
(c) Those that you can solve and those you can't.
(d) Those that you should ignore and those that require attention.
5. What resource was taken most frequently from the rainforest during the 19th century?
(a) Wood.
(b) Rubber.
(c) Exotic birds.
(d) Diamonds.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the conspirators hope to get?
2. Who does Mauro Carias refuse to identify?
3. What quality does Alex believe Kate has too much of?
4. What incident causes Alex to become angry and demolish his own bedroom?
5. How does Kate define experience?
Short Essay Questions
1. What theory does Kate accept about the origin of the Amazon Indians?
2. Why is Mauro Carias anxious to capture the Beast?
3. Why does the book Alex reads convince him that the Amazon Indians are not civilized?
4. Why does Cesar Santos say that the Amazon Indians rejected Christianity?
5. Why does Kate employ harsh teaching methods with Alex?
6. Why are others unable to see Walimai's traveling companion?
7. What kinds of problems does Kate believe there are?
8. Why is Alex upset by seeing his father shave his mother, Lisa's, head?
9. What does Padre Valdomero's experience with the Beast reveal about the creature?
10. How does Alex's experience in New York prepare him for his trip to the Amazon?
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