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

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

3. Where does Marina go with Alan and Nancy Saturn?
(a) Java.
(b) Into the deep jungle.
(c) The next village down river.
(d) Manaus.

4. 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) Protect him.
(c) Make him grow up.
(d) Make him love his father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two characteristics that Nancy points out about Dr. Rapp?

2. What horrifies Marina when they take a break from their trip on the river?

3. What does Swenson advise Marina to stop doing?

4. How old does Dr. Swenson think Easter is?

5. What is one thing in Easter's small storage box?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dr. Nkomo in Brazil?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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