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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the crew of the boat greeted?
(a) With slaps on the body.
(b) With silence.
(c) With bows.
(d) With a strange hand signal ritual.

2. Why is Dr. Swenson angry with Barbara?
(a) Barbara brings several tourists to the Lakashi tribe.
(b) Barbara arrives and wants to eat some of the bark of the Martins.
(c) Barbara brings her infant son to the jungle.
(d) Barbara brings Fox to the jungle.

3. Who chose the interns who accompanied Dr. Rapp?
(a) They were chosen by lottery.
(b) Rapp.
(c) Swenson.
(d) The Dean of Medicine at Dr. Rapp's university.

4. What is one thing in Easter's small storage box?
(a) Feathers.
(b) A hat.
(c) Several shells.
(d) A leather belt.

5. What does Saturn say Rapp taught the young men?
(a) How to be men.
(b) How to deal with the native peoples.
(c) How to create a research project.
(d) How to survive in the jungle.

6. Who accompanies Marina to go see the trees that produce the fertility compound?
(a) Dr. Swenson.
(b) Dr. Buni and Nancy.
(c) Dr. Saturn.
(d) Easter.

7. For what does Dr. Swenson say she has no love?
(a) Local medical practices.
(b) Vogel.
(c) The white man's ways.
(d) Nosy researchers.

8. What do the purple moths called martinets do?
(a) Eat the hallucinogenic mushrooms.
(b) Lay its eggs in the bark of the Martins trees.
(c) Pass on a rare disease to humans.
(d) Suck juice from the bark of the Martins trees.

9. To what does Dr. Swenson admit about accompanying the tribe into the deep jungle?
(a) She thinks it is another way the women stay young.
(b) She was afraid to be left behind.
(c) She participated in their ritual.
(d) She was afraid.

10. Where does Easter sleep?
(a) In a hammock.
(b) On Dr. Swenson's porch.
(c) Under a porch.
(d) In the tent with two other orphans.

11. What does Swenson almost do on the trail?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Get lost.
(c) Step on a poisonous snake.
(d) Faint.

12. Why does Marina go daily to the Martins?
(a) To study the purple moths.
(b) To eat the bark.
(c) To collect samples.
(d) To gather some bark for Dr. Swenson.

13. What do Marina and Swenson discuss?
(a) Vogel.
(b) Marina's residency.
(c) Easter.
(d) The Lakashi.

14. Who is likely Hummocca?
(a) Dr. Swenson's housekeeper.
(b) Easter.
(c) Dr. Swenson's research assistant.
(d) Dr. Swenson's field worker.

15. Who does Barbara see running towards her on their trip to the Lakashi?
(a) Her dead father.
(b) Her dead sister.
(c) Her dead mother.
(d) Her dead grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Swenson help Marina let go of Marina's past?

2. What does Marina think Swenson is implying when talking about Anders?

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

4. What has Easter been giving Marina?

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

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