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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) Write grants.
(d) Care for the sick and injured.

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

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

8. What has Easter been giving Marina?
(a) Seed pods.
(b) Letters from Anders to Karen.
(c) Feathers.
(d) A variety of natural objects.

9. 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.

10. About what is Fox pleased?
(a) Marina giving the Lakashi help in the name of Vogel.
(b) Marina looking tan and fit.
(c) Marina's active participation in the research.
(d) Swenson's pregnancy.

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

12. What does Marina think Fox should have told her?
(a) That Swenson was not in charge.
(b) That Anders had a son there.
(c) That the Lakashi people were under government protection.
(d) That Vogel is paying other doctors to work on the projects.

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

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

15. Where does Marina go with Alan and Nancy Saturn?
(a) The next village down river.
(b) Java.
(c) Manaus.
(d) Into the deep jungle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Marina learn about the trees that produce the fertility compound?

3. What is one thing Marina does on her time off?

4. What do the purple moths called martinets do?

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

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