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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marina feel in Manaus?
(a) Confronted.
(b) Accepted.
(c) Uneasy.
(d) Affronted.

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

3. What is the Bovenders' connection with Dr. Swenson?
(a) They are her in-laws.
(b) They watch her apartment.
(c) They are friends of hers from her home town.
(d) They are friends of hers from medical school.

4. What does Marina learn to do with the local vendors?
(a) Learn about the area from them.
(b) Bargain.
(c) Avoid them.
(d) Ignore them.

5. What did Dr. Rapp allow on his expeditions that many other researchers did not?
(a) Married couples.
(b) The financiers.
(c) Women.
(d) The Press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swenson want of Marina?

2. What does Dr. Rapp research in the Amazon basin?

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

4. Who is Milton?

5. Why does Milton take Marina to his brother-in-law's store?

(see the answer key)

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