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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dr. Swenson thank Marina?
(a) For saving Easter's life.
(b) For not interfering with the tribe's customs.
(c) For coming to the jungle.
(d) For helping Dr. Swenson with research.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Benoit looking for as they ride on the boat?
(a) A snake to make a headband out of the skin.
(b) Birds that are in Anders' book.
(c) Fish to spear.
(d) Bugs he is collecting for Dr. Saturn.

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

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

11. What does Dr. Swenson often do when she is a member of Dr. Rapp's research group?
(a) Write papers for Dr. Rapp.
(b) Go out into the jungle to collect specimans.
(c) Care for the sick and injured.
(d) Write grants.

12. What wakens Marina?
(a) Easter's screams.
(b) A growling noise.
(c) A bat flying against the screen.
(d) A low moaning noise.

13. What does the tribe do when it goes deep into the jungle?
(a) Takes warriors to guard the women.
(b) Slathers on some sort of salve that no insects will approach.
(c) Hunts for black leopards.
(d) Takes hallucinogenic mushrooms.

14. Who is Dr. Thomas Nkomo?
(a) A sociology professor.
(b) A researcher.
(c) A anthropology professor.
(d) A medical missionary.

15. What does Dr. Swenson say Marina must do or Swenson will drop her on the shore?
(a) Agree to hear all sides of the research issue.
(b) Listen to Swenson.
(c) Toughen up.
(d) Go back after one week.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Fox pleased?

2. Why does Marina go back to the boat?

3. What did Dr. Rapp allow on his expeditions that many other researchers did not?

4. From what condition is Dr. Swenson suffering?

5. What do some of the women do with Marina?

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