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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. To whom does Coffey speak to in chapter 52 in an effort to force D'Agosta to move everyone back into the Hall of the Heavens?
(a) Smithback.
(b) The mayor.
(c) Officer Bailey.
(d) The governor.

2. According to Whittlesey's journal, what was the old native woman upset about?
(a) Whittlesey stole the last of her food.
(b) Whittlesey ruined the flowerbeds outside her hut.
(c) Whittlesey took the devil, Mbwun, in his crate.
(d) Whittlesey killed her husband.

3. How is Ippolito killed in Chapter 48?
(a) He falls down the stairs.
(b) The killer grabs him as he attempts to walk through the Superstition Exhibition.
(c) A panicked party goer knifes him.
(d) The killer murders him as he attempts to check the safety of the stairwell.

4. What does Smithback see in the room he and D'Agosta's group enters in Chapter 60?
(a) Old artifacts.
(b) Bones and dead bodies.
(c) The creature.
(d) Clothing and jewelry taken from the dead.

5. Where does Pendergast shoot the killer in Chapter 46?
(a) The head.
(b) The leg.
(c) The shoulder.
(d) The belly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ability does Pendergast believe the creature has that will prevent them from finding safety from the creature?

2. What causes panic in the stairwell as D'Agosta attempts to lead a group of survivors into the basement of the museum in Chapter 51?

3. How many security doors closed when the computer system malfunctioned?

4. What starts the panic inside the Superstition Exhibition in Chapter 44?

5. Who has the honor of cutting the ribbon on the Superstition Exhibition in Chapter 44?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dr. Frock's theory on the killer in the museum as he explains it to Pendergast in Chapter 29?

2. Why do Margo and Pendergast go into the secure area and take some of the packing material from Whittlesey's shipping crate in Chapter 52?

3. Who remains stuck inside the Hall of the Heavens with D'Agosta?

4. What contract does Smithback show off four weeks after the creature is killed? With whom does Smithback promise to share any proceeds from the contract?

5. Where do Margo and Dr. Frock go in Chapter 45? For what reason?

6. Why does Dr. Frock want to see the crates from the Whittlesey Expedition again?

7. What does Smithback learn about the cargo shipped from the Amazon by Whittlesey before his disappearance in Chapter 27? Why is this significant?

8. What does Rickman want Smithback to sign in Chapter 35? Why does he agree to sign?

9. What does Margo find in the crates? What does she take?

10. What happens to the lights in the museum? What other damage does this cause?

(see the answer keys)

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