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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Superstition Exhibition: Chapters 21-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mistake does security guard Eric Norris make at the crime scene in Chapter 14?
(a) Vomits on evidence.
(b) Steps in blood.
(c) Calls the police belatedly.
(d) Moves the body.

2. Where were the red-haired child and his older brother, Billy, supposed to meet their parents after visiting the Museum of Natural History?
(a) The gift shop.
(b) The front steps.
(c) At grandmother's.
(d) At home.

3. What does Pendergast show Dr. Wright that causes the doctor physical discomfort?
(a) A bill for his services.
(b) Pictures of the mutilated young boys.
(c) A tally of the money being lost to the museum during the investigation.
(d) Pictures of the latest crime scene.

4. To what literary work does Whittlesey compare the place where he expects to find the Kothoga people?
(a) Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
(b) Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey.
(c) Michael Crichton's The Lost World.
(d) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

5. What section of the Museum of Natural History does Smithback call a strange graveyard?
(a) The storage area of the Archeology Department.
(b) The storage area of the Physical Anthropology Laboratory.
(c) The Pachyderm Hall.
(d) The Hall of Crustacean Dinosaurs.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Whittlesey write a letter before sending his crates away?

2. Why does the red-haired kid follow his brother, Billy, into a dark, cavernous room?

3. What does Whittlesey hope to find on this expedition?

4. What does the security guard tell the red headed child not to touch in the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. Where is Whittlesey's Expedition taking place?

(see the answer key)

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