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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the bridge in Chapter 1?
(a) Hanging River Bridge.
(b) Breston Bay Bridge.
(c) Striker Bridge.
(d) Humboldt Rail Bridge.

2. Where did Pamela expect to begin working?
(a) At a DNA laboratory.
(b) For a local newspaper.
(c) At an AIDS hospice.
(d) With her mother's company.

3. In what month does the book begin?
(a) December.
(b) August.
(c) May.
(d) July.

4. What is the translation given in the book of the phrase "Cui ci sono dei monstri"?
(a) Believe in monsters.
(b) Here there be monsters.
(c) There are always monsters.
(d) Save me from the monsters.

5. What title does the disembodied voice in the tunnel give Smithback?
(a) Writer.
(b) Newsman.
(c) Scriblerian.
(d) Collector of pain.

6. Why does Margo say she likes Smithback's second article on Pamela Wisher?
(a) He wrote very eloquently.
(b) All of the answers are incorrect.
(c) He didn't objectify the victim.
(d) He answered every possible question about Pamela.

7. Who is Hayward's boss?
(a) Green.
(b) Waxie.
(c) Smithback.
(d) D'Agosta.

8. What coats the staircase down to the lower level of the tunnels?
(a) Paint.
(b) Lime.
(c) Rust.
(d) Lichens.

9. In what year was Linnaeus Hall constructed?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1927.

10. What is the name of the waterway in which Snow goes on his first dive?
(a) Ohio River.
(b) Cloaca Maxima.
(c) Cripple Creek.
(d) Hudson River.

11. What is the name for the crime reporter for the Times?
(a) Bob Wisher.
(b) Bill Smithback.
(c) Marion Ross.
(d) Bryce Harriman.

12. What is a Stumpiniceps troglodytes?
(a) A tree-dwelling serpent from the Triassic period.
(b) A rodent, much like a mouse, from the Carboniferous period.
(c) An oceanic bottom-feeder of the Carboniferous period.
(d) A small, odoriferous reptile of the Cretaceous period.

13. What does Mephisto call the territory below Central Park?
(a) Route 666.
(b) The Blockhouse.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Ho Chi Minh trail.

14. What program did Greg develop that were key in identifying and stopping Mbwun?
(a) Genetic extrapolation.
(b) DNA sequencing.
(c) The skip-sequence-skip program.
(d) MTHFR genetic anomoly.

15. What do the police believe caused the marks found on Pamela's skeleton?
(a) A saw.
(b) Teeth.
(c) Disease.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was on the pair of athletic socks found at the site of the first homeless murder?

2. What is the Devil's Attic?

3. What does the trio find in the cubby where the second headless body was found?

4. What piece of literature does Mephisto tell Smithback to read before they meet again?

5. What is the ever-present threat in the tunnels?

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