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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has Marina been doing since her first foray into medical practice?
(a) Avoiding any more medical work.
(b) Recording her impressions of Dr. Swenson's work.
(c) Working on medical cases.
(d) Working on a solution to a lab compound they need.

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

4. Where does Easter take Marina?
(a) To show her where the bathrooms are.
(b) To eat something in the communal kitchen.
(c) To a cot in a storage area.
(d) To meet the tribal chief's wife.

5. What is one thing Marina does on her time off?
(a) Works on statistics for the drug project.
(b) Swims in the river.
(c) Talks with the Lakashi women.
(d) Writes up Dr. Swenson's notes.

6. What does the tribe do when it goes deep into the jungle?
(a) Takes hallucinogenic mushrooms.
(b) Slathers on some sort of salve that no insects will approach.
(c) Takes warriors to guard the women.
(d) Hunts for black leopards.

7. What does Marina think Swenson is implying when talking about Anders?
(a) That Marina will quit the jungle after a couple days.
(b) That Marina will not be able to live up to Anders' competency.
(c) That Anders is alive.
(d) That Marina does not care about the Lakashi.

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

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

10. How does Barbara make an almost-fatal error?
(a) She leads Mr. Fox to the Hummocca tribe.
(b) She gets the boat grounded in a dangerous area.
(c) She does not bring enough gas along on the trip.
(d) She allows several of the Hummocca tribal members on the boat.

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

12. 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.

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

14. Why does Marina go daily to the Martins?
(a) To collect samples.
(b) To study the purple moths.
(c) To gather some bark for Dr. Swenson.
(d) To eat the bark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Marina go with Alan and Nancy Saturn?

2. What does Swenson almost do on the trail?

3. Why does Saturn stop traveling with Rapp?

4. What happens to Easter that almost kills him?

5. What are two characteristics that Nancy points out about Dr. Rapp?

(see the answer keys)

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