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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. Why is the only thing that grows near the fertility trees a type of hallucinogenic mushroom?
(a) The fertility trees poison the ground around them.
(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 need a very acidic soil to thrive and not much else can grown in such an environment.

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

3. What does Dr. Swenson believe is good for the health?
(a) Wine at lunch.
(b) Exercise.
(c) A siesta after lunch.
(d) Laughter.

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

5. What did Dr. Rapp allow on his expeditions that many other researchers did not?
(a) Married couples.
(b) Women.
(c) The Press.
(d) The financiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marina go back to the boat?

2. Who drives the boat that carries Dr. Swenson?

3. Why is Dr. Swenson angry with Barbara?

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

5. Why does Marina go daily to the Martins?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Marina write' how is the letter to be posted, and what letters does Easter keep giving her?

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

3. Who are on the boat going to the trading post?

4. What does Marina learn about the Martins and Rapps?

5. How does Marina realize Swenson is nearly seventy?

6. What does Easter do that upsets Marina and how does Swenson react?

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

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

9. How does Marina save Easter's life?

10. What awakens Marina during the night and what does she do?

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