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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What title does the disembodied voice in the tunnel give Smithback?
(a) Writer.
(b) Scriblerian.
(c) Newsman.
(d) Collector of pain.

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

6. Why does Margo visit the 27th Precinct House in Chapter 19?
(a) To find D'Agosta.
(b) To speak with the Chief.
(c) To report her purse stolen.
(d) For target practice.

7. What is the Devil's Attic?
(a) The lowest level of the city.
(b) The place where the tunnel inhabitants bury their dead.
(c) The area occupied only by murderers.
(d) The highest level of the tunnels.

8. Where is the Pitti Palace located?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Chinatown.
(c) New York City.
(d) Florence, Italy.

9. What is the translation given in the book of the phrase "Cui ci sono dei monstri"?
(a) Save me from the monsters.
(b) There are always monsters.
(c) Here there be monsters.
(d) Believe in monsters.

10. Where do Smithback and Margo have drinks after he runs into her while she is jogging?
(a) Four Seasons.
(b) Café des Artistes.
(c) The Rainbow Room.
(d) Hard Rock Cafe.

11. 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.

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

13. What business with Mephisto does Pendergast tell the squatters he has?
(a) Money laundering.
(b) Wrinklers.
(c) Mbwun.
(d) Drugs.

14. What piece of literature does Mephisto tell Smithback to read before they meet again?
(a) Beyond Ragoon.
(b) A Poet's Maze.
(c) Flowers for Algernon.
(d) The Dunciad.

15. What was the conclusion made by the medical examiner after examining the teeth marks on the bones of the victims?
(a) They were most likely made by humans.
(b) The were made by rats.
(c) They were made by Mbwun.
(d) They were not teeth marks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Linnaeus Hall constructed?

2. What is blastomycosis?

3. What is D'Agosta's theory about the murders in Chapter 20?

4. What program did Greg develop that were key in identifying and stopping Mbwun?

5. What or who are Pendergast and D'Agosta looking for in the tunnels in Chapter 22?

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