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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 grow up.
(d) Make him choose a different field of study.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Saturn say Rapp taught the young men?
(a) How to be men.
(b) How to survive in the jungle.
(c) How to create a research project.
(d) How to deal with the native peoples.

8. Where has Easter started sleeping?
(a) He has not changed sleeping quarters.
(b) On the boat.
(c) On Marina's porch.
(d) In Marina's bed.

9. How old does Marina realize Dr. Swenson is?
(a) Nearly 60.
(b) Nearly 75.
(c) Nearly 70.
(d) Nearly 80.

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

11. How old does Dr. Swenson think Easter is?
(a) 88.
(b) 105.
(c) 22.
(d) 12.

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

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

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

15. What is Nkomo studying?
(a) He is not studying; he is spreading the gospel of Christianity.
(b) The evolution of the Aboriginal gene pool.
(c) The relation of the Lakashi to other tribes in the area.
(d) Mosquitoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marina think Fox should have told her?

2. What are the scientists unable to do?

3. How is the crew of the boat greeted?

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

5. What is one thing in Easter's small storage box?

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