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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marina learn when she arrives in Manaus?
(a) Her mother is ill.
(b) Fox has called her twice.
(c) Dr. Swenson is unavailable.
(d) Her luggage is lost.

2. Why does Fox think Swenson will listen to Marina?
(a) The two women went to high school together.
(b) Marina was once Swenson's student.
(c) Marina's sister is married to Swenson's brother.
(d) Swenson has never been friendly to men.

3. What are the scientists unable to do?
(a) Convince the Lakashi to let more scientists study the trees.
(b) Produce the compound that the fertility trees make.
(c) Analyze the compound of the poisonous ground.
(d) Analyze the compound of the mushrooms.

4. What does Marina throw away at the airport?
(a) Her birth control pills.
(b) The Lariam pills.
(c) The picture of Fox.
(d) The poem Fox wrote her.

5. What else besides fertility do the trees affect?
(a) Cause growth spurts.
(b) Protect against malaria.
(c) Protect against dengue fever.
(d) Protect against most cancers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marina think Fox should have told her?

2. What do the purple moths called martinets do?

3. What does Fox manipulate Marina into doing?

4. Where is Marina going with the Bovenders the following night after her illness?

5. How old is Fox?

(see the answer key)

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