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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it difficult to speak to the first Indians they encounter?
(a) They speak too fast.
(b) They are women and children who are not allowed to speak to strangers.
(c) They do not speak any Portuguese.
(d) They just stare at the men.

2. Why does the lawsuit go forward?
(a) The lawyers insist.
(b) Josh insists.
(c) To maintain the state-ordered deadline.
(d) To preserve Troy Phelan's estate.

3. What do Rachel and Nate do together?
(a) Pray.
(b) Read.
(c) Look at patients.
(d) Sing.

4. What happens when the lawyers cannot dredge up anything on Rachel?
(a) They withdraw their lawsuit.
(b) They are delighted.
(c) They dredge up lots of dirt on Nate.
(d) They are very nervous.

5. Besides preaching the gospel, what does Rachel do?
(a) She practises the tribal religion also so as to gain the trust of the people.
(b) She teaches the women to be feminists.
(c) She lives by the gospels.
(d) She teaches the people how to be civilized.

6. What does Nate tell Rachel?
(a) That if she doesn't claim her inheritance some very bad people will benefit.
(b) That he loves her.
(c) About his past.
(d) That he will forcibly take her back.

7. What do all the lawyers sign?
(a) Paperwork for a loan.
(b) An affadavit hiring Hark.
(c) Nolo contendre plea.
(d) Nothing.

8. What does Rex do that his other siblings do not?
(a) Include his mother in the lawsuit.
(b) Reviews the paperwork from the lawyers.
(c) Buy in on the company's stocks.
(d) Write to Rachel.

9. How is Nate's condition in this chapter?
(a) About the same as when he arrived at the hospital.
(b) Improving daily.
(c) Worsening.
(d) He dies.

10. What does Mary Ross decide to do?
(a) Fire her lawyers and join her brothers in their suit.
(b) Withdraw from the legal proceedings altogether.
(c) Cozen up to Nate.
(d) Kill herself like her father.

11. What strikes Nate about the Indian village?
(a) The hostility.
(b) The heat.
(c) Their slow pace.
(d) Their frenzied activity.

12. Who is Dr. Sabo?
(a) A friend of Rachel's in the jungle.
(b) A retired psychiatrist who could be paid to say anything in a court of law.
(c) A friend of Nate's.
(d) A internist who treated Troy for cancer.

13. What is Josh doing for Nate?
(a) Giving him a generous percentage of the lawyer fees.
(b) Recommending him for a partnership.
(c) Advising him about investments so he can retire comfortably.
(d) Cleaning up Nate's obligations so he can retire with dignity.

14. What does the neighboring village chief say about the little girl's death?
(a) He chides the parents for their belief in Christianity.
(b) That these things just happen in life.
(c) That their bush god is punishing the parents.
(d) That it is his fault for allowing her to go into the jungle.

15. Why does a little girl in the neighboring village die?
(a) She has too high a fever and dies.
(b) She is killed by accident by a hunter.
(c) Rachel has no antivenin for the little girl.
(d) She is torn up too badly by an alligator to be helped.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does TJ do?

2. What does the doctor say about Nate's fever returning?

3. What does a second letter say?

4. After shooting a few holes in Snead's testimony, who does Nate go after next?

5. To whom does Rex first tell his discovery about the lawyers?

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