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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Marina feel as the boat is making a landing?
(a) Hope that Anders is still alive.
(b) Awe.
(c) Fear.
(d) Curiosity.

5. How are the Lakashi characterized as far as study subjects?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Reluctant.
(c) Unwilling.
(d) Patient.

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

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

8. What do the purple moths called martinets do?
(a) Lay its eggs in the bark of the Martins trees.
(b) Pass on a rare disease to humans.
(c) Eat the hallucinogenic mushrooms.
(d) Suck juice from the bark of the Martins trees.

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

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

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

12. What happens to Easter that almost kills him?
(a) A snake wraps around him.
(b) He eats bad food.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He falls into the water where there is a crocodile.

13. What stories does Alan Saturn tell Marina?
(a) About Dr. Rapp.
(b) About Easter.
(c) About Anders.
(d) About his boyhood as son of a missionary couple deep in the jungle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Benoit find in a vegetative area of the river?

2. What does Marina do as she eats the bark?

3. Who is likely Hummocca?

4. What does Swenson almost do on the trail?

5. Where does Marina find Anders' passport and driver's license?

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