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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. On what item does D'Agosta strike a match in Chapter 7?
(a) The matchbox.
(b) The sole of his shoe.
(c) The underside of his desk.
(d) All answers are incorrect.

5. What label did Smithback give Pamela Wisher?
(a) Angel without Wings.
(b) Angel of the Hudson.
(c) Angel of the Morning.
(d) Angel of Central Park South.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Pamela expect to begin working?

3. What title does the disembodied voice in the tunnel give Smithback?

4. What color is the powder that the mystery man in Chapter 8 mixes with water?

5. What is the name of the administrator of the Physical Anthropology lab?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history of Mbwun, and why is it assumed that these killings might relate to the events surrounding this creature?

2. What seems to be the reason that the unknown character in Chapter 8 holds the Ceremony?

3. How does D'Agosta take Waxie's assignment as team leader for the investigation? Why does he feel it might be a good move for all concerned?

4. Why is there so much excitement surrounding the second skeleton found in the polluted Cloaca?

5. What is the irony in the author's naming the leader of the Route 666 group Mephisto?

6. What do you think is the importance of the New York Museum of Natural History to the storyline?

7. What purpose might an evolutionary biologist and a biologist whose specialty is genetics serve to the police in this story?

8. Why do you think the author mentions his previous book, "Relic"?

9. Brambell and Frock are men of extraordinary intelligence. Why do you think their personalities clash?

10. What is ironic about using the muse of rhetoric, Polyhymnia, to name an ornate club in Chapter 10? Does its patronage seem to have anything to do with it?

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