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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Marina go back to the boat?
(a) To find Dr. Swenson.
(b) To thank the pilot.
(c) To see if her mosquito netting is still there.
(d) To get her suitcase.

2. Where does Easter take Marina?
(a) To a cot in a storage area.
(b) To meet the tribal chief's wife.
(c) To eat something in the communal kitchen.
(d) To show her where the bathrooms are.

3. What does Marina do when she falls asleep?
(a) Dreams of cocodiles in the boat.
(b) Dreams of home.
(c) Dreams of her father.
(d) Dreams of Anders.

4. Why does Saturn stop traveling with Rapp?
(a) He gets malaria.
(b) He gets dengue fever.
(c) He gets blackwater fever.
(d) He gets yellow fever.

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

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

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

8. Where does Marina find Anders' passport and driver's license?
(a) Under the mattress of the cot where she is sleeping.
(b) Under the cot where she is sleeping.
(c) In a niche in the wall.
(d) In Easter's box.

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

10. Why is the only thing that grows near the fertility trees a type of hallucinogenic mushroom?
(a) The hallucinogenic mushrooms poisons the ground.
(b) The fertility trees have such a thick canopy that sun does not get to the earth to promote other growth.
(c) The fertility trees need a very acidic soil to thrive and not much else can grown in such an environment.
(d) The fertility trees poison the ground around them.

11. What does Nancy say Dr. Saturn's father was trying to do to his son?
(a) Protect him.
(b) Make him grow up.
(c) Make him love his father.
(d) Make him choose a different field of study.

12. 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 mushrooms.
(d) Analyze the compound of the poisonous ground.

13. Why does Marina grab Fox tightly?
(a) He almost steps on a snake.
(b) He is despondent.
(c) To emphasize a point she is making.
(d) She is being silly.

14. What can Marina not find?
(a) Easter.
(b) Dr. Swenson.
(c) Her notebooks.
(d) Her suitcase.

15. What happens to Easter that almost kills him?
(a) He falls into the water where there is a crocodile.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He eats bad food.
(d) A snake wraps around him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives the boat that carries Dr. Swenson?

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

3. What does Dr. Swenson believe is good for the health?

4. How is Marina left?

5. What has Marina been doing since her first foray into medical practice?

(see the answer keys)

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