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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Dr. Rapp allow on his expeditions that many other researchers did not?
(a) Married couples.
(b) Women.
(c) The Press.
(d) The financiers.

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

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

5. Who accompanies Marina to go see the trees that produce the fertility compound?
(a) Dr. Saturn.
(b) Easter.
(c) Dr. Swenson.
(d) Dr. Buni and Nancy.

6. What does Marina realize about Alan Saturn's work and the Lakashi?
(a) Alan is helping them become immune to several jungle fevers.
(b) Alan is helping them in other ways besides his research.
(c) Alan is not respectful of their culture.
(d) Alan is using them without their consent.

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

8. What does Swenson almost do on the trail?
(a) Step on a poisonous snake.
(b) Vomit.
(c) Get lost.
(d) Faint.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swenson want of Marina?

2. What is Nkomo studying?

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

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

5. How does Barbara make an almost-fatal error?

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