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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Pitti Palace?
(a) A dance club.
(b) A Chinese restaurant.
(c) An art museum.
(d) Home of Augustian royalty.

2. What is the name of the theory presented by Dr. Frock?
(a) Disparate evolution.
(b) Creationist evolution.
(c) Fractal evolution.
(d) Frockian evolution.

3. What does the frieze in Linnaeus Hall represent?
(a) The world's extinct species.
(b) God's creation of the world and mankind.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Man's inhumanity to man.

4. Whose body was found in the basement of the brownstone?
(a) Hank Jasper.
(b) Greg Kawakita.
(c) Curly Braddock.
(d) Vinnie.

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

6. What is the name of the administrator of the Physical Anthropology lab?
(a) Sy Hagedorn.
(b) Emmaline Spragg.
(c) Margo Green.
(d) Greg Kawakita.

7. What does the waiter bring to Margo and Smithback along with their drinks in Chapter 15?
(a) A bowl of peanuts.
(b) A bowl of filberts.
(c) A bowl of crackers.
(d) A bowl of popcorn.

8. How many homeless people have allegedly been murdered in the tunnels in the last four months?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Seven.

9. How does the pool secretary describe the clothing that Smithback's informant was wearing?
(a) Preppy.
(b) Rags.
(c) A shroud.
(d) Neat as a pin.

10. What was the Tower modeled after?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) The Welsh castle of Caernarvon.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) The Tower of London.

11. What metaphor is used to describe the Reservoir in Chapter 16?
(a) It was a shimmering ribbon of sequins.
(b) It was a slightly curved smile on the face of New York.
(c) It was a sheet of beaten gold.
(d) It was a mirror of deep reflection.

12. Why does Margo say she likes Smithback's second article on Pamela Wisher?
(a) He didn't objectify the victim.
(b) All of the answers are incorrect.
(c) He answered every possible question about Pamela.
(d) He wrote very eloquently.

13. 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.

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

15. What does Mephisto call rats?
(a) Vermin.
(b) The other white meat.
(c) Track rabbits.
(d) Delicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two characters in Chapter 12 detest each other?

2. What is a Stumpiniceps troglodytes?

3. What is the name of the waterway in which Snow goes on his first dive?

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."

5. In what year was Linnaeus Hall constructed?

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