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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the bridge in Chapter 1?
2. What odor does Smithback detect when following his informant into the small hole?
3. How many people are in Linnaeus Hall for the presentation of the evidence gleaned from the Bitterman autopsy?
4. What nickname has Smitback given to Margo in Chapter 15?
5. What is the identity of the deformed skeleton?
Short Essay Questions
1. How might Margo's expertise in ethnopharmacology be an example of foreshadowing?
2. Why do you think people of so many disciplines are called in to examine the two skeletons found in the river?
3. What purpose might an evolutionary biologist and a biologist whose specialty is genetics serve to the police in this story?
4. Do you think that Bill Smithback would do anything to get the exclusive on a murder investigation? Why or why not? Do his tactics seem moral or sensationa? Why?
5. What does Pendergast reveal about Hayward? How does Hayward feel about this revelation? How does D'Agosta feel about this revelation?
6. Brambell and Frock are men of extraordinary intelligence. Why do you think their personalities clash?
7. What is the irony in the author's naming the leader of the Route 666 group Mephisto?
8. Why do you think the author mentions his previous book, "Relic"?
9. What is ironic about using the muse of rhetoric, Polyhymnia, to name an ornate club in Chapter 10? Does its patronage seem to have anything to do with it?
10. What kind of influence do you think a woman like Mrs. Wisher would likely have on the political climate? Does she show that she is willing to use that influence to force matters in the direction she wants them to go? What gives you that indication?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Greg Kawakita is a key part of the reason the city is being overrun with murders. He is long gone, but his legacy of madness lives on in those he "infected" with the drug, glaze. How do you think Kawakita rationalized giving the drug to others when he already knew it was what created the Mwbun? How do you think he rationalized taking it himself?
Essay Topic 2
The underground tunnels are a huge part of this story. What kind of mood do the tunnels create? Are they sufficiently creepy for a novel of this genre? Do you think the tunnels and the state of the inhabitants is a statement on the condition of New York City and its inhabitants? Why do you think the author expresses such cynicism through his homeless characters?
Essay Topic 3
There is a dichotomy illustrated in Anette Wisher's efforts to solve the murder of her child and Mephisto's efforts to solve the murders of his "children." Compare/contrast their methods, outlining what seems to be working and what doesn't seem to be working. Can you see the similarities in their methods? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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