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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What confidential piece of information does Smithback reveal to Margo that he knows about the two bodies from the river?
(a) All of the answers are incorrect.
(b) The skeletons are both female.
(c) One of the bodies is her cousin.
(d) There were teeth marks on the bones.

2. What is Snow looking for after a police shootout?
(a) A stolen car.
(b) A dead body.
(c) A kidnapped girl.
(d) A brick of heroin.

3. 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.

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

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) Jungian.
(b) Holmesian.
(c) Platonian.
(d) Freudian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the powder that the mystery man in Chapter 8 mixes with water?

2. What is Snow preparing to do at the opening of Chapter 1?

3. What odor does Smithback detect when following his informant into the small hole?

4. What is a Stumpiniceps troglodytes?

5. In Chapter 11, who leads the group through the tunnel?

(see the answer key)

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