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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) Birds that are in Anders' book.
(b) Fish to spear.
(c) A snake to make a headband out of the skin.
(d) Bugs he is collecting for Dr. Saturn.

2. What does Swenson advise Marina to stop doing?
(a) Working for Vogel.
(b) Seeing something bad behind every bush.
(c) Coming any futher into the jungle.
(d) Taking Lariam.

3. Why is the only thing that grows near the fertility trees a type of hallucinogenic mushroom?
(a) The fertility trees need a very acidic soil to thrive and not much else can grown in such an environment.
(b) The hallucinogenic mushrooms poisons the ground.
(c) The fertility trees have such a thick canopy that sun does not get to the earth to promote other growth.
(d) The fertility trees poison the ground around them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Lakashi characterized as far as study subjects?

2. What horrifies Marina when they take a break from their trip on the river?

3. Why does Dr. Swenson thank Marina?

4. Who is Dr. Thomas Nkomo?

5. Who does Barbara see running towards her on their trip to the Lakashi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What shocks Marina one day as the boat from Manaus arrives, and how does she feel about it?

4. What does Marina do in her spare time?

5. What does Swenson do immediately upon arriving and who helps Marina?

6. What does Marina observe when she accompanies Dr. Buni and Nancy to the fertility trees?

7. What does Swenson tell Marina about Easter?

8. Who does Marina meet at the docks the next morning and where does he take her?

9. Why is Dr. Nkomo in Brazil?

10. How does Swenson say Dr. Rapp would react to a ill or injured tribal member?

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