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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tribe doing in the morning when Marina awakes?
(a) They are hard at work.
(b) They are preparing for a hunt.
(c) They are planting.
(d) They are still sleeping.

2. What does Marina think Fox should have told her?
(a) That Swenson was not in charge.
(b) That the Lakashi people were under government protection.
(c) That Vogel is paying other doctors to work on the projects.
(d) That Anders had a son there.

3. What does Marina feel as the boat is making a landing?
(a) Hope that Anders is still alive.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Awe.
(d) Fear.

4. Why is Dr. Swenson angry with Barbara?
(a) Barbara brings her infant son to the jungle.
(b) Barbara arrives and wants to eat some of the bark of the Martins.
(c) Barbara brings Fox to the jungle.
(d) Barbara brings several tourists to the Lakashi tribe.

5. What does Nancy say Dr. Saturn's father was trying to do to his son?
(a) Make him choose a different field of study.
(b) Make him love his father.
(c) Make him grow up.
(d) Protect him.

6. What does Marina realize about Alan Saturn's work and the Lakashi?
(a) Alan is helping them become immune to several jungle fevers.
(b) Alan is not respectful of their culture.
(c) Alan is helping them in other ways besides his research.
(d) Alan is using them without their consent.

7. What does Dr. Swenson say Marina must do or Swenson will drop her on the shore?
(a) Toughen up.
(b) Listen to Swenson.
(c) Go back after one week.
(d) Agree to hear all sides of the research issue.

8. Where does Marina find Anders' passport and driver's license?
(a) Under the cot where she is sleeping.
(b) In a niche in the wall.
(c) Under the mattress of the cot where she is sleeping.
(d) In Easter's box.

9. What is one thing in Easter's small storage box?
(a) A hat.
(b) A leather belt.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Several shells.

10. Why is the only thing that grows near the fertility trees a type of hallucinogenic mushroom?
(a) The fertility trees have such a thick canopy that sun does not get to the earth to promote other growth.
(b) The fertility trees poison the ground around them.
(c) The hallucinogenic mushrooms poisons the ground.
(d) The fertility trees need a very acidic soil to thrive and not much else can grown in such an environment.

11. How does Swenson help Marina let go of Marina's past?
(a) By telling Marina Dr. Swenson did the same thing once.
(b) By talking to her about her mistake with the baby she blinds.
(c) She is not able to help Marina.
(d) By telling her the future can forgive the past.

12. How are the Lakashi characterized as far as study subjects?
(a) Reluctant.
(b) Unwilling.
(c) Patient.
(d) Fearful.

13. About what is Fox pleased?
(a) Marina's active participation in the research.
(b) Marina giving the Lakashi help in the name of Vogel.
(c) Marina looking tan and fit.
(d) Swenson's pregnancy.

14. What are two characteristics that Nancy points out about Dr. Rapp?
(a) Warmth and charm.
(b) Insightful and compassionate.
(c) Coldness and infidelity.
(d) Efficiency and insightful.

15. From what condition is Dr. Swenson suffering?
(a) Hyperthyroidism.
(b) Preclampsia.
(c) Gestational diabetes.
(d) Eczema.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Marina go with Alan and Nancy Saturn?

2. What do the purple moths called martinets do?

3. Who accompanies Marina to go see the trees that produce the fertility compound?

4. Why does Swenson drop Marina's hammock onto the deck?

5. What does Dr. Swenson often do when she is a member of Dr. Rapp's research group?

(see the answer keys)

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