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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28 through 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What piece of literature does Mephisto tell Smithback to read before they meet again?
(a) A Poet's Maze.
(b) Beyond Ragoon.
(c) The Dunciad.
(d) Flowers for Algernon.

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

3. What does Margo find in the puddle-like areas on the floor of the burned out warehouse?
(a) Evidence of marijuana.
(b) Several stolen fossils.
(c) The remains of a rare Amazonian plant.
(d) The remains of several extinct fish.

4. What does Pendergast say is the largest inhabited region on earth that remains unmapped?
(a) Antipodes.
(b) Milwaukee.
(c) Underground New York.
(d) Outer Mongolia.

5. What is the name of the librarian at the New York Historical Society?
(a) Padelsky.
(b) Willson.
(c) Cushing.
(d) Horlocker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname given for the administrator of the Physical Anthropology lab?

2. What does D'Agosta discover Hayward doing in the storage room?

3. In what bar does Smithback make his phone call in Chapter 6?

4. What is Frock's reasoning for dismissing Margo's theory about the killings?

5. What exhibition was opening at the Museum eighteen months before the current murders took place?

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