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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Margo begun to carry in her purse?
(a) An emergency credit card.
(b) Lipstick.
(c) A pistol.
(d) Mace.

2. What dignitary shows up at Mrs. Wisher's rally?
(a) The president.
(b) The mayor of New York.
(c) The governor of New York.
(d) The senator of New York

3. What is the ever-present threat in the tunnels?
(a) Rats.
(b) The third rail.
(c) Rabid dogs.
(d) Mentally ill inhabitants.

4. What does the trio find in the cubby where the second headless body was found?
(a) A cryptic note.
(b) A head.
(c) An old coin.
(d) A rat's nest.

5. What exhibition was opening at the Museum eighteen months before the current murders took place?
(a) Superstition.
(b) The Evolution of Piltdown man.
(c) Life Under the Ocean.
(d) Hall of Africa.

6. Smithback's informant insists that Smtihback must meet whom?
(a) Mephisto.
(b) Arnold Murray.
(c) Tail Gunner.
(d) Elvis.

7. What program did Greg develop that were key in identifying and stopping Mbwun?
(a) DNA sequencing.
(b) Genetic extrapolation.
(c) MTHFR genetic anomoly.
(d) The skip-sequence-skip program.

8. What is D'Agosta's theory about the murders in Chapter 20?
(a) That the murders are the work of a serial killer.
(b) That a cult might be committing the murders.
(c) That the murders are definitely attributable to the homeless population.
(d) That the deaths aren't linked at all.

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

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

11. Which character had a crush on Smithback?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Ginny.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Margo.

12. What is the identity of the deformed skeleton?
(a) Greg Kawakita.
(b) Dr. Cavalierei.
(c) Simon Brambell.
(d) It is never identified.

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

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

15. What is Pendergast's place of residence called?
(a) Home Sweet Home.
(b) The Berkshire.
(c) Main Street.
(d) The Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stench does D'Agosta try to dilute with the plume of smoke?

2. What coats the staircase down to the lower level of the tunnels?

3. What is blastomycosis?

4. In what year was Linnaeus Hall constructed?

5. In what month does the book begin?

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