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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 the working theory about the second skeleton found in the waterway?
(a) It is a Native American burial site.
(b) It is not real.
(c) It is the Missing Link.
(d) It is an animal.

2. What stench does D'Agosta try to dilute with the plume of smoke?
(a) Bad wine.
(b) Unwashed human bodies.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Rancid urine.

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

4. How much is the reward for information into the murders?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $250,000.
(d) $50,000.

5. What does Mephisto call rats?
(a) Track rabbits.
(b) The other white meat.
(c) Delicious.
(d) Vermin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does D'Agosta discover Hayward doing in the storage room?

2. What do Nick and Tanya do with their champagne glasses once they are empty?

3. On which floor does Mrs. Wisher live?

4. Why is Nick Bitterman going to Belveder Castle?

5. What is another name given to the homeless population in the tunnels?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Chief Horlocker's decision to make sure that the case is given priority because a debutante is based upon social standing, given that homeless men and women have died in the same way for weeks? Why or why not?

2. Does the existence of an underground "clan" seem plausible? What do you think is their purpose in the story?

3. Why do you think the author mentions his previous book, "Relic"?

4. How might Margo's expertise in ethnopharmacology be an example of foreshadowing?

5. What is the irony in the author's naming the leader of the Route 666 group Mephisto?

6. Why are the homeless referred to as "moles"?

7. Who is the homeless man who invades D'Agosta's office, and what is his reason for being there?

8. What about the Museum of Natural History makes its atmosphere àpropos to a book of this genre?

9. Police work seems to involve a lot of political jostling and brown-nosing. How is that concept illustrated in Chapter 11?

10. To what does Dr. Frock attribute the Mbwun's existence and its unlikely appearance in New York?

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