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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Galdikas like?
(a) She is very prompt and detailed.
(b) She is very easy-going.
(c) She is a very difficult person with whom to work.
(d) She challenges everyone around her to think.

2. What is Rita's favorite thing to do in Vancouver?
(a) She loves hiking.
(b) She loves going to the market.
(c) She loves fishing.
(d) She loves working in her garden.

3. What hobby does Rita pick up while living in Seattle?
(a) Stamp collecting.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Scrapbooking.

4. How does Dr. Galdikas treat the animals?
(a) She is rough with them in Rita's opinion.
(b) She doesn't interact with them at all. She just observes them.
(c) She is abrupt with them.
(d) Sweetly as if they are her babies.

5. How does Rita help the wives?
(a) She teaches them English.
(b) She helps with gardening.
(c) She shops for them.
(d) She watches the children.

6. Why does Rita climb the mountains?
(a) She loves exercising.
(b) She wants to prove that she can.
(c) She wants to see the country from a high point.
(d) She wants to meet the people who live in the mountains.

7. What tool changes Rita's connection to her family?
(a) She can telegraph the family.
(b) They use instant cameras to share candid images.
(c) The family starts visiting her more.
(d) She gets Internet access.

8. Why does the group travel through swamps and trees?
(a) Someone from the area has called for them.
(b) It's good exercise.
(c) Rita wants to go somewhere the missionaries haven't gone.
(d) They like the adventure.

9. Where does Rita live in Seattle?
(a) With her son.
(b) With her daughter.
(c) In an apartment overlooking a lake.
(d) In a house she buys.

10. What does Tu Nini do before she dies?
(a) She writes a letter.
(b) She asks for permission to die.
(c) She calls all her closest friends and relatives in to say goodbye.
(d) She cleans the house.

11. How much interaction does Rita have with Dr. Galdikas?
(a) They eat together daily.
(b) They are inseparable.
(c) They have little to no interaction.
(d) They meet daily several times.

12. What is Rita's relationship with Tu Aji?
(a) They are lovers.
(b) They become very close friends.
(c) They are polite but distant to each other.
(d) There is outright animosity between them.

13. What does Rita think of sago, the main food staple of the tree village?
(a) She thinks it is dry and flavorless, but eats it anyway.
(b) She loves it.
(c) She spits it out.
(d) She asks for the recipe.

14. What stops Rita from staying in one of the village houses?
(a) She would have to climb up a tree.
(b) The people are very ill.
(c) She doesn't like the atmosphere in the village.
(d) The inhabitants scare her away.

15. Why does Rita leave Bali to go the United States?
(a) She is tired of Bali.
(b) To check on her mother.
(c) She wants to get an apartment.
(d) She doesn't want to be reminded of Tu Nini.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is missing from Rita's life after she returns to Bali?

2. Why does the family think Tu Nini is dying?

3. What does Rita want to do when she leaves Bali in 1997?

4. How does Tu Aji feel about death?

5. How does Rita furnish her home in Seattle?

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