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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Benoit looking for as they ride on the boat?
(a) A snake to make a headband out of the skin.
(b) Fish to spear.
(c) Birds that are in Anders' book.
(d) Bugs he is collecting for Dr. Saturn.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakens Marina?

2. What do the purple moths called martinets do?

3. Why is the only thing that grows near the fertility trees a type of hallucinogenic mushroom?

4. What does Marina notice on many of the crates on the boat?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Swenson's philosophy about intervention in the lives of the tribes?

2. What does Marina find in her quarters?

3. Why is Dr. Nkomo in Brazil?

4. What is the situation with Swenson's pregnancy?

5. What is said about Dr. Rapp during the boat trip?

6. Why does Marina perform surgery and how does it go?

7. How does Marina feels as the boat pulls up to the dock where the Lakashi are and how do they greet the arrivals?

8. Why does Marina go into the jungle every day and what does she wonder about her doing so?

9. What has Marina been doing since performing the C section, and what does she want to do?

10. How does Marina realize Swenson is nearly seventy?

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