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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Marina left?
(a) Alone in the darkness.
(b) Alone in a cozy tent.
(c) Alone with the Shaman.
(d) Surrounded by the male tribal members.

2. Why does Dr. Swenson thank Marina?
(a) For not interfering with the tribe's customs.
(b) For saving Easter's life.
(c) For helping Dr. Swenson with research.
(d) For coming to the jungle.

3. What has Easter been giving Marina?
(a) A variety of natural objects.
(b) Feathers.
(c) Letters from Anders to Karen.
(d) Seed pods.

4. Who meets the boat?
(a) Easter's parents.
(b) The Lakashi shaman.
(c) The entire Lakashi tribe.
(d) Anders.

5. What does Swenson advise Marina to stop doing?
(a) Working for Vogel.
(b) Taking Lariam.
(c) Seeing something bad behind every bush.
(d) Coming any futher into the jungle.

6. What does Dr. Saturn announce?
(a) He is almost through with the project he's been working on.
(b) He is marrying a researcher in another village.
(c) He is taking letters to the trading post upstream.
(d) He is leaving for the States next week.

7. What is Nkomo studying?
(a) The relation of the Lakashi to other tribes in the area.
(b) He is not studying; he is spreading the gospel of Christianity.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) The evolution of the Aboriginal gene pool.

8. Who does Barbara see running towards her on their trip to the Lakashi?
(a) Her dead grandmother.
(b) Her dead sister.
(c) Her dead father.
(d) Her dead mother.

9. Who is Dr. Thomas Nkomo?
(a) A anthropology professor.
(b) A sociology professor.
(c) A researcher.
(d) A medical missionary.

10. Why does Marina perform under the supervision of Dr. Swenson?
(a) A C-section.
(b) A delicate lab experiement.
(c) An appendectomy.
(d) Surgery to removed a large skin cancer.

11. How do the Lakashi women use the trees that produce the fertility compound?
(a) They eat the soft bark.
(b) They brew a tea from the leaves.
(c) They brew a tea from the bark.
(d) They pulverize the roots and eat the paste made from them.

12. Who drives the boat that carries Dr. Swenson?
(a) A hired pilot.
(b) Dr. Swenson.
(c) Marina.
(d) Easter.

13. 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.

14. To what does Dr. Swenson admit about accompanying the tribe into the deep jungle?
(a) She was afraid to be left behind.
(b) She participated in their ritual.
(c) She thinks it is another way the women stay young.
(d) She was afraid.

15. Why does Swenson drop Marina's hammock onto the deck?
(a) The rope breaks; it is not Dr. Swenson's fault.
(b) To wake up her and discourage her from going further.
(c) To test Marina's toughness.
(d) She hears Marina's nightmare and thinks there is a snake in Marina's hammock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakens Marina?

2. What do some of the women do with Marina?

3. What is Benoit looking for as they ride on the boat?

4. About what is Fox pleased?

5. What does Benoit find in a vegetative area of the river?

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