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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old does Dr. Swenson think Easter is?
(a) 22.
(b) 88.
(c) 12.
(d) 105.

3. 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 fertility trees need a very acidic soil to thrive and not much else can grown in such an environment.
(c) The fertility trees have such a thick canopy that sun does not get to the earth to promote other growth.
(d) The hallucinogenic mushrooms poisons the ground.

4. What does Marina think Swenson is implying when talking about Anders?
(a) That Anders is alive.
(b) That Marina will quit the jungle after a couple days.
(c) That Marina does not care about the Lakashi.
(d) That Marina will not be able to live up to Anders' competency.

5. Why does Milton take Marina to his brother-in-law's store?
(a) To talk to him about Anders.
(b) To meet him.
(c) To look at a medical problem the man is having.
(d) For her to purchase supplies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Milton?

3. How are there a high number of visible trunks on the fertility trees?

4. When does Dr. Rapp study in the Amazon basin?

5. What does Swenson advise Marina to stop doing?

(see the answer key)

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