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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 does the tribe do when it goes deep into the jungle?
(a) Hunts for black leopards.
(b) Slathers on some sort of salve that no insects will approach.
(c) Takes warriors to guard the women.
(d) Takes hallucinogenic mushrooms.

2. Why does Marina have to perform a C-section on Dr. Swenson?
(a) Dr. Swenson is having twins.
(b) Dr. Swenson's baby is dead.
(c) Dr. Swenson is too old for natural childbirth.
(d) Dr. Swenson is having triplets.

3. What is Benoit looking for as they ride on the boat?
(a) Fish to spear.
(b) A snake to make a headband out of the skin.
(c) Bugs he is collecting for Dr. Saturn.
(d) Birds that are in Anders' book.

4. Who accompanies Marina to go see the trees that produce the fertility compound?
(a) Dr. Buni and Nancy.
(b) Dr. Saturn.
(c) Dr. Swenson.
(d) Easter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marina go daily to the Martins?

2. What does Swenson almost do on the trail?

3. What can Marina not find?

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

5. Why does Marina go back to the boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the situation with Swenson's pregnancy?

2. What does the tribe do occasionally when they go into the deep jungle and what does Swenson say about it?

3. How does Marina feels as the boat pulls up to the dock where the Lakashi are and how do they greet the arrivals?

4. Why is Dr. Nkomo in Brazil?

5. Who does Marina write' how is the letter to be posted, and what letters does Easter keep giving her?

6. What shocks Marina one day as the boat from Manaus arrives, and how does she feel about it?

7. What does Swenson do immediately upon arriving and who helps Marina?

8. What awakens Marina during the night and what does she do?

9. What does Marina observe when she accompanies Dr. Buni and Nancy to the fertility trees?

10. How does Marina save Easter's life?

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