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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mephisto call the territory below Central Park?
(a) Route 666.
(b) Ho Chi Minh trail.
(c) The Blockhouse.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. What title does the disembodied voice in the tunnel give Smithback?
(a) Newsman.
(b) Writer.
(c) Collector of pain.
(d) Scriblerian.

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

4. To what type of philosophy is the following phrase attributed? "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
(a) Platonian.
(b) Jungian.
(c) Holmesian.
(d) Freudian.

5. In what month does the book begin?
(a) December.
(b) May.
(c) August.
(d) July.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Snow looking for after a police shootout?

2. What is the working theory about the second skeleton found in the waterway?

3. What is the name for the crime reporter for the Times?

4. How does the pool secretary describe the clothing that Smithback's informant was wearing?

5. What is blastomycosis?

(see the answer key)

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