View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the purple moths called martinets do?
(a) Lay its eggs in the bark of the Martins trees.
(b) Suck juice from the bark of the Martins trees.
(c) Eat the hallucinogenic mushrooms.
(d) Pass on a rare disease to humans.

4. What has Marina been doing since her first foray into medical practice?
(a) Working on a solution to a lab compound they need.
(b) Avoiding any more medical work.
(c) Recording her impressions of Dr. Swenson's work.
(d) Working on medical cases.

5. 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) Swenson's pregnancy.
(d) Marina looking tan and fit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara make an almost-fatal error?

2. Why is the only thing that grows near the fertility trees a type of hallucinogenic mushroom?

3. What else besides fertility do the trees affect?

4. From what condition is Dr. Swenson suffering?

5. Who is likely Hummocca?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has Marina been doing since performing the C section, and what does she want to do?

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

4. Why does Marina go into the jungle every day and what does she wonder about her doing so?

5. What does Marina find in her quarters?

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

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

8. What does Easter do that upsets Marina and how does Swenson react?

9. How does Marina save Easter's life?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 943 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample