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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 Dr. Swenson do as far as ill tribal members?
(a) Leave them to find their own ways of healing.
(b) Refer them to a doctor in another village.
(c) Refer them to a hospital upstream.
(d) Treat them.

2. What does Marina notice on many of the crates on the boat?
(a) Anders' name.
(b) Another drug company's name.
(c) Writing.
(d) A skull and crossbone.

3. What do Marina and Swenson discuss?
(a) Marina's residency.
(b) The Lakashi.
(c) Easter.
(d) Vogel.

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

5. How does Barbara make an almost-fatal error?
(a) She allows several of the Hummocca tribal members on the boat.
(b) She leads Mr. Fox to the Hummocca tribe.
(c) She does not bring enough gas along on the trip.
(d) She gets the boat grounded in a dangerous area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Lakashi women use the trees that produce the fertility compound?

2. For what does Dr. Swenson say she has no love?

3. What does Marina think Swenson is implying when talking about Anders?

4. Why does Marina grab Fox tightly?

5. What does Marina do as she eats the bark?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the siesta that makes Swenson dump Marina on the deck?

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

3. Who does Marina meet at the docks the next morning and where does he take her?

4. How does Marina save Easter's life?

5. How does Marina realize Swenson is nearly seventy?

6. What else are the Martins good for besides fertility inducement?

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

8. Who are on the boat going to the trading post?

9. How does Swenson say Dr. Rapp would react to a ill or injured tribal member?

10. What is said about Dr. Rapp during the boat trip?

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