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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where has Easter started sleeping?
(a) On the boat.
(b) On Marina's porch.
(c) He has not changed sleeping quarters.
(d) In Marina's bed.

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

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

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

5. Who meets the boat?
(a) The entire Lakashi tribe.
(b) The Lakashi shaman.
(c) Easter's parents.
(d) Anders.

6. What is one thing Marina does on her time off?
(a) Talks with the Lakashi women.
(b) Swims in the river.
(c) Writes up Dr. Swenson's notes.
(d) Works on statistics for the drug project.

7. What does Marina notice on many of the crates on the boat?
(a) Anders' name.
(b) Writing.
(c) Another drug company's name.
(d) A skull and crossbone.

8. Why does Swenson want Marina to stay?
(a) To find the answer to the mystery of Anders' disappearance.
(b) To help the Lakashi fend off unwanted visitors.
(c) To bury Dr. Swenson.
(d) To give the researchers time to finish developing the malaria drug.

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

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

11. How are there a high number of visible trunks on the fertility trees?
(a) The root system replicates itself.
(b) The trunks grow from branches that bend over and root onto the ground.
(c) They do not know how the trees replicate.
(d) The trunks split off into four trunks at a young age.

12. What does Dr. Saturn announce?
(a) He is leaving for the States next week.
(b) He is taking letters to the trading post upstream.
(c) He is marrying a researcher in another village.
(d) He is almost through with the project he's been working on.

13. Why does Swenson drop Marina's hammock onto the deck?
(a) To wake up her and discourage her from going further.
(b) The rope breaks; it is not Dr. Swenson's fault.
(c) To test Marina's toughness.
(d) She hears Marina's nightmare and thinks there is a snake in Marina's hammock.

14. How does Swenson help Marina let go of Marina's past?
(a) She is not able to help Marina.
(b) By telling her the future can forgive the past.
(c) By telling Marina Dr. Swenson did the same thing once.
(d) By talking to her about her mistake with the baby she blinds.

15. How is Marina left?
(a) Alone in a cozy tent.
(b) Alone in the darkness.
(c) Alone with the Shaman.
(d) Surrounded by the male tribal members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the note from Anders say that is in Easter's box?

2. About what is Fox pleased?

3. What do the purple moths called martinets do?

4. Why does Marina grab Fox tightly?

5. Why does Marina perform under the supervision of Dr. Swenson?

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