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

2. What was on the pair of athletic socks found at the site of the first homeless murder?
(a) Mud.
(b) Rat droppings.
(c) Blood.
(d) Mold.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character had a crush on Smithback?

2. What piece of literature does Mephisto tell Smithback to read before they meet again?

3. What dignitary shows up at Mrs. Wisher's rally?

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

5. How many homeless people have allegedly been murdered in the tunnels in the last four months?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about the Museum of Natural History makes its atmosphere àpropos to a book of this genre?

2. What is the basic precept of Frock's theory of fractal evolution? How would it apply to the events taking place in the story?

3. Do you think Chief Horlocker's decision to make sure that the case is given priority because a debutante is based upon social standing, given that homeless men and women have died in the same way for weeks? Why or why not?

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

5. Who is the homeless man who invades D'Agosta's office, and what is his reason for being there?

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

7. What is Brambell's theory about what animal is responsible for the teeth marks on Pamela Wisher's bones? How does this change the direction of the investigation?

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

9. What kind of influence do you think a woman like Mrs. Wisher would likely have on the political climate? Does she show that she is willing to use that influence to force matters in the direction she wants them to go? What gives you that indication?

10. To what does Dr. Frock attribute the Mbwun's existence and its unlikely appearance in New York?

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