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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 Alex's weapon?

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

3. How do the Amazon natives feel about wealth?

4. What item does Alex still have after Morgana's theft?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nadia become multilingual?

2. How does Kate show love for Alex in spite of her apparent disregard for his well-being?

3. What does Morgana take from Alex, and what does she give him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motives of the different members of the expedition as they set out. Are they at odds with one another? Would it be possible for all of them to achieve their goals?

Essay Topic 2

What does Nadia mean when she advises Alex that he must learn to "see with his heart?" Does he understand her advice? Does he accomplish it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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