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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. Who is Ven?

2. Why does Beauregard call for help when he hears a noise in the Superstition Exhibit?

3. Why does the guard at the Superstition Exhibit hall door turn Margo away in Chapter 20?

4. Whose body was supposedly found mutilated in the museum, thus starting the rumor of the museum beast as related to Margo in Chapter 15?

5. Under what discipline does Gregory Kawakita work in the Anthropology Department?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect is the murder investigation having on the Museum of Natural History's visitors and staff?

2. What is Margo Green working on at the Museum of Natural History? Who is her adviser?

3. What does Pendergast show Dr. Frock in Chapter 18? What is Dr. Frock's reaction?

4. What is Dr. Whittlesey doing as the novel begins? Why is this important?

5. Where does Whittlesey find Crocker? What does the marks on the body say to Whittlesey about Crocker's fate?

6. What does Smithback ask Kawakita to help him with in Chapter 25? Why does Kawakita refuse?

7. What is Dr. Frock's main complaint about Dr. Cuthbert's new exhibit at the Museum of Natural History?

8. What is a ballistics analysis and why does Pendergast suggest one be done on the blood at the crime scene in Chapter 14?

9. Why does Smithback suggest the search for a killer in the museum would be nearly impossible?

10. What is the Callisto Effect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Margo finds herself trapped between loyalty to her family and her desire to finish her education in this novel. Discuss what event placed Margo in this position. Why is Margo reluctant to make a decision? Why does Margo feel she is needed at home? Why does she want to remain in New York? What impact on Margo's life will there be when she completes her dissertation? How would Margo's life change if she were to chose her family over her education? In the end, what decision does Margo make? Why? What decision would you have made in the same situation? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Callisto Effect. What is the Callisto Effect? Who developed it? What evidence is there to support such a theory? Why do other scientists deny the existence of the Callisto Effect? What evidence is there against the theory? How does the creature who was killing people in the Museum of Natural History appear to prove the Callisto Effect? How does it disprove the theory?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Whittlesey? What expedition did he go on? To where? What was the purpose of the expedition? Did Whittlesey find what he was looking for? What happened to the scientists involved in the expedition? Was this related to the relics crated and sent back to the museum? If so, explain. What is assumed was Dr. Whittllesey's fate? What did his journal say about the expedition? Was this helpful tot he murder investigation? What letter did Margo find in the crates related to the expedition? Was this letter helpful in learning about the nature of the creature? What item of Whittlesey's was found in the creature's lair? What conclusion did investigators come to when seeing this item? Is this conclusion correct?

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