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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Swenson want of Marina?
(a) To stay and deliver Swenson's baby.
(b) To go into the deep jungle.
(c) To quit Vogel and start up a new research company.
(d) To return to Vogel and plead Swenson's case.

2. What does Marina do as she eats the bark?
(a) Asks if Anders ate the bark.
(b) Worries about its effect on her.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Hold her nose.

3. Who does Marina call when she arrives at her hotel?
(a) Dr. Swenson.
(b) Fox.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Karen.

4. What does Dr. Rapp research in the Amazon basin?
(a) Parasites.
(b) Vectors.
(c) Fungi.
(d) Bats.

5. What does Marina do over the next few days?
(a) Visits the Bovenders numerous times but they never answer the door.
(b) Writes her impressions of the area.
(c) Waits for Dr. Swenson to return to town.
(d) Sightsees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swenson advise Marina to stop doing?

2. How does Marina feel in Manaus?

3. Who is likely Hummocca?

4. What are the hallucinogenic mushrooms called?

5. What does Marina learn about the trees that produce the fertility compound?

(see the answer key)

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