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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 is the name for the crime reporter for the Times?
(a) Bryce Harriman.
(b) Bill Smithback.
(c) Marion Ross.
(d) Bob Wisher.

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

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

4. What is the working theory about the second skeleton found in the waterway?
(a) It is a Native American burial site.
(b) It is the Missing Link.
(c) It is an animal.
(d) It is not real.

5. 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) Freudian.
(c) Jungian.
(d) Holmesian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smithback's informant say his name is?

2. What do the police believe caused the marks found on Pamela's skeleton?

3. What title does the disembodied voice in the tunnel give Smithback?

4. What is the name of the curator for the New York Museum of Natural History?

5. What story won Smithback great accolades?

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