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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 blue-foot Psilocybe?
(a) A rare form of goose.
(b) An extinct Amazonian parrot.
(c) A potent hallucinogenic mushroom.
(d) A Russian monkey.

2. What does Margo do with the charred notebook?
(a) Crumbles it into ash accidentally.
(b) Slowly reads through it.
(c) Puts it in a Ziploc bag.
(d) Throws it away.

3. What is Frock's theory of who was responsible for the subway massacre?
(a) Drug dealers in a war defending their turf.
(b) Bonnie and Clyde wannabes.
(c) A gang of youths on a homicidal rampage.
(d) A sadistic serial killer.

4. What is Waxie's suggestion to kill the creatures?
(a) Electrocution.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Methane gas.

5. What is the name of the city engineer with whom Pendergast consults?
(a) Al Diamond.
(b) Al Braxton.
(c) Al Tillman.
(d) Al Sharp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margo do to discover what Greg was doing in the burned out warehouse?

2. What time are the valves to be opened at the Water Authority?

3. What did Margo discover Greg's lab setup was for?

4. What weapon does Pendergast prepare before they set the charges in the Bottleneck?

5. What happened to Jumbo, P.T. Barnum's elephant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margo plan to figure out what Greg had been doing in his warehouse laboratory?

2. Pendergast seems uninterested in the "patterns" revealed by the data comparisons done by computer. There is one that interests him, however. What is that pattern and how might it prove useful to the investigation?

3. What do you think the symbols Pendergast discovered, which translate to a description of a Japanese tea room, mean to the creatures?

4. What purpose might hallucinogenic mushrooms serve in the ceremony that Kawakita established?

5. Of what is the subway massacre the first definitive indication? What does this mean to the investigation?

6. Do you think that Bill Smithback is being used by Anette Wisher as a tool to carry out her own plans? Why do you think so? Cite examples from the text to support your explanation.

7. What starts the riots during the Take Back Our City March? Is this the fault of Mrs. Wisher, the police, or the homeless? Cite examples to support your argument.

8. What is a seemingly positive side effect of the reovirus infection? What might this mean to future testing?

9. Why do you think the creatures abduct the group determined to destroy them instead of killing them like they have everyone else?

10. What is the true nature of the ritual Kawakita established among the Wrinklers?

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