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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tribe doing in the morning when Marina awakes?
(a) They are planting.
(b) They are still sleeping.
(c) They are hard at work.
(d) They are preparing for a hunt.

2. What horrifies Marina when they take a break from their trip on the river?
(a) A snake falls into the boat.
(b) A crocodile almost grabs Easter as he is hanging over the side fishing.
(c) Easter jumps overboard.
(d) Dr. Swenson jumps in the river.

3. What are the hallucinogenic mushrooms called?
(a) Rapps.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Eaters.
(d) Nifters.

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

5. How do the Lakashi women use the trees that produce the fertility compound?
(a) They brew a tea from the leaves.
(b) They brew a tea from the bark.
(c) They pulverize the roots and eat the paste made from them.
(d) They eat the soft bark.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Saturn announce?

2. What does Saturn say Rapp taught the young men?

3. What does Marina realize about Alan Saturn's work and the Lakashi?

4. What does Swenson almost do on the trail?

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

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