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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Pamela expect to begin working?
(a) At a DNA laboratory.
(b) For a local newspaper.
(c) With her mother's company.
(d) At an AIDS hospice.

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

3. What do the police believe caused the marks found on Pamela's skeleton?
(a) A saw.
(b) Teeth.
(c) A knife.
(d) Disease.

4. In what year was Linnaeus Hall constructed?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1927.

5. Who is Hayward's boss?
(a) D'Agosta.
(b) Smithback.
(c) Green.
(d) Waxie.

6. 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) Platonian.
(c) Freudian.
(d) Holmesian.

7. What nickname has Smitback given to Margo in Chapter 15?
(a) Sweet Pea.
(b) Darling.
(c) Lotus Blossom.
(d) Rose Petal.

8. What does "DISH" stand for in the discussion between Frock, D'Agosta, and Brambell?
(a) Diachroic isopeptide saccharin heliobore.
(b) Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
(c) Dinucleated insular subskeletal herniation.
(d) Dramatically idiotic superstitious hyperstasis.

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

10. What were the killings called that Dr. Frock and Margo solved in the prequel to "Reliquary"?
(a) Route 666 Killings.
(b) The Eyebrow Creature Killings.
(c) The Metropolitan Murders.
(d) Museum Beast Killings.

11. What kind of biologist is Margo?
(a) Macroscopic.
(b) Physical.
(c) Microscopic.
(d) Evolutionary.

12. What color is the powder that the mystery man in Chapter 8 mixes with water?
(a) Sulfur yellow.
(b) Light jade.
(c) Cyan.
(d) Vermilion.

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

14. What story won Smithback great accolades?
(a) The Mkwan story.
(b) The Mrable story.
(c) The Mbwun story.
(d) The Muskrat story.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Nick and Tanya do with their champagne glasses once they are empty?

2. What metaphor is used to describe the Reservoir in Chapter 16?

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

4. What question does Pendergast ask D'Agosta when they see the squatters' fire in the tunnel?

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

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