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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 closest substitute for the plant hormones that the Mbwun craves?
(a) The thyroid.
(b) Black tar heroin.
(c) Crack cocaine.
(d) The hypothalamus.

2. What happened to the one mouse that survived the mouse battle, though badly injured?
(a) It ran itself into the bars of its cage until it died.
(b) It continued to fight.
(c) It completely healed in minutes.
(d) It chewed throught the bars of its cage and escaped.

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

4. What does Margo try to outrun in Chapter 53?
(a) A train.
(b) A creature.
(c) Pendergast.
(d) Mephisto.

5. Why is it believed the creatures live in the deepest recesses of the tunnel?
(a) They shun light.
(b) They feel at home underground.
(c) All of the answers are incorrect.
(d) The stifling atmosphere reminds them of the Amazon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pendergast tell D'Agosta he must go after the fiasco of Jeffery's interview?

2. What are the Wrinklers doing in the Crystal Pavilion when Margo looks down on them in horror?

3. What is thrown at the officers in Chapter 46?

4. What power does the shaman believe he harnessed from the lilies?

5. What is the name of the one person who escaped a close encounter with Mbwun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think are Pendergast's true intentions in bringing Mephisto along on the mission to the Crystal Palace?

2. 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.

3. What purpose does the scene with the Navy SEALs have?

4. 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.

5. Why does Pendergast make a second trip into the tunnels?

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

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

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

9. What does Pendergast find in the Crystal Pavilion that causes him alarm? Why do you think these things scare him?

10. 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?

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