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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the survivor of the subway massacre say about the attackers' features?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) They had devil eyes.
(c) They had old faces.
(d) They had lizard eyes.

2. What was the name of the new drug out on the street, as mentioned in Chapter 35?
(a) Firebrand.
(b) Glaze.
(c) Rocket.
(d) Quicksilver.

3. What is Snow doing at 10:15 p.m. in Chapter 52?
(a) Filling out paperwork.
(b) Taking a nap.
(c) Painting the storage room.
(d) Preparing to dive on the helicopter crash.

4. What does Pendergast say that they can be sure of regarding the creatures?
(a) They are completely malevolent.
(b) They can see in the dark.
(c) They are fast.
(d) All answers are correct.

5. What does Hayward say to Pendergast when he asks her if she has any last words?
(a) "This is foolish."
(b) "Don't go."
(c) "I love you."
(d) "Go get 'em."

6. What does Pendergast say would be foolish if he is gone more than 72 hours?
(a) A sting operation.
(b) A rescue mission.
(c) The assumption that he is dead.
(d) A funeral.

7. What happened to Jumbo, P.T. Barnum's elephant?
(a) He died of old age.
(b) He was hit by a freight train.
(c) He was strangled with the chain that held him.
(d) He was killed by an angry mob.

8. The man Hayward rescued in the tunnels is whose son?
(a) A high powered executive's.
(b) A state senator's.
(c) The police chief's.
(d) A day trader's.

9. What does Miller do when caught in the crowd of moles?
(a) Hides in a cubby.
(b) Releases tear gas.
(c) Shoots to kill.
(d) Runs away from protection.

10. What is Frock's reasoning for dismissing Margo's theory about the killings?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) It goes directly against evolutionary theory.
(c) It is too farfetched.
(d) He hasn't had a chance to review her scientific analysis.

11. Whom does Smithback run into after witnessing the horrible destruction of a group of policemen in the tunnels?
(a) Miller.
(b) Hayward.
(c) Waxie.
(d) Duffy.

12. What weapon does Pendergast prepare before they set the charges in the Bottleneck?
(a) .22 calibur gun.
(b) Flamethrower.
(c) Grenade launcher.
(d) Pipe bomb.

13. What was the tentative translation of the phrase spoken by the survivor of the subway massacre?
(a) Alligator tail.
(b) Claws of obsidian.
(c) Knives of flint.
(d) Horns of the devil.

14. What is the name of the Museum scientist who disappeared in the Amazon ten years earlier?
(a) Julian Whittlesey.
(b) Jonathan Weekly.
(c) Jacques Whitesides.
(d) James Walker.

15. Where is it believed that Kawakita's test subjects now live?
(a) On the subway line.
(b) In different locations.
(c) In the Astor Tunnels.
(d) In the sewers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What supposedly happens when the Mbwun plant is eaten?

2. Where is Pendergast's map?

3. What does the shaman call his plan for the evolution of mankind?

4. What is Frock's theory of who was responsible for the subway massacre?

5. What happened to the original plant fibers after the Museum Beast was killed?

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