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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the note from Anders say that is in Easter's box?
(a) For someone to take Easter to his wife.
(b) That Easter is the son of Dr. Swenson.
(c) That Anders wishes to be buried in the jungle.
(d) That Easter's deafness can be fixed with an operation.

2. 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.

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

4. Who meets the boat?
(a) Easter's parents.
(b) The entire Lakashi tribe.
(c) The Lakashi shaman.
(d) Anders.

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

6. What does Marina notice on many of the crates on the boat?
(a) Another drug company's name.
(b) A skull and crossbone.
(c) Writing.
(d) Anders' name.

7. What does Dr. Swenson say is more the issue than morality?
(a) The greater good.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Sustainability.

8. What does Dr. Saturn announce?
(a) He is leaving for the States next week.
(b) He is taking letters to the trading post upstream.
(c) He is marrying a researcher in another village.
(d) He is almost through with the project he's been working on.

9. Why does Marina go back to the boat?
(a) To thank the pilot.
(b) To get her suitcase.
(c) To see if her mosquito netting is still there.
(d) To find Dr. Swenson.

10. What does Marina learn about the trees that produce the fertility compound?
(a) Each tree has a root system spanning several hundred feet.
(b) Each tree is hundreds of years old.
(c) The trees only live in a small area of the jungle.
(d) It is actually only one tree.

11. What does Dr. Swenson do as far as ill tribal members?
(a) Refer them to a doctor in another village.
(b) Leave them to find their own ways of healing.
(c) Treat them.
(d) Refer them to a hospital upstream.

12. 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.

13. From what condition is Dr. Swenson suffering?
(a) Preclampsia.
(b) Hyperthyroidism.
(c) Eczema.
(d) Gestational diabetes.

14. What are two characteristics that Nancy points out about Dr. Rapp?
(a) Insightful and compassionate.
(b) Coldness and infidelity.
(c) Efficiency and insightful.
(d) Warmth and charm.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Swenson often do when she is a member of Dr. Rapp's research group?

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

3. Why does Saturn stop traveling with Rapp?

4. What does Nancy say Dr. Saturn's father was trying to do to his son?

5. How old does Dr. Swenson think Easter is?

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