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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the bridge in Chapter 1?
(a) Breston Bay Bridge.
(b) Hanging River Bridge.
(c) Humboldt Rail Bridge.
(d) Striker Bridge.

2. What is the name of the curator for the New York Museum of Natural History?
(a) Margo Green.
(b) Bill Smithback.
(c) Simon Brambell.
(d) Olivia Meriam.

3. What does Nick Bitterman proclaim August seventh to be?
(a) Lovers' holiday.
(b) All of the answers are incorrect.
(c) The BEST day.
(d) Tanya Schmidt day.

4. Which two characters in Chapter 12 detest each other?
(a) Frock and Margo.
(b) All of the answers are incorrect.
(c) Brambell and Frock.
(d) Margo and Brambell.

5. What is the average number of murders a day in the past year in New York as mentioned in Chapter 14?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

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

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

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

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

10. What is the nickname given for the administrator of the Physical Anthropology lab?
(a) Stingy.
(b) Bones.
(c) Skeletor.
(d) Stumpy.

11. What does Pendergast say is the largest inhabited region on earth that remains unmapped?
(a) Milwaukee.
(b) Outer Mongolia.
(c) Underground New York.
(d) Antipodes.

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

13. On which floor does Mrs. Wisher live?
(a) Eighteenth floor.
(b) Twentieth floor.
(c) Eleventh floor.
(d) Second floor.

14. What is Snow preparing to do at the opening of Chapter 1?
(a) Sing.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Drive.
(d) Dive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Chihuahua that tries to attack D'Agosta?

2. What does Hayward tell Waxie and D'Agosta to watch for in the lower level?

3. What shocking news does Frock give Margo in Chapter 22?

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

5. How many people are in Linnaeus Hall for the presentation of the evidence gleaned from the Bitterman autopsy?

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