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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 was the Tower modeled after?
(a) The Tower of London.
(b) The Welsh castle of Caernarvon.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) All answers are correct.

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

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

4. What do Nick and Tanya do with their champagne glasses once they are empty?
(a) They throw them into the pond.
(b) They smash them on the stones.
(c) The wrap them carefully for future celebrations.
(d) They refill them.

5. What were the killings called that Dr. Frock and Margo solved in the prequel to "Reliquary"?
(a) The Metropolitan Murders.
(b) Museum Beast Killings.
(c) Route 666 Killings.
(d) The Eyebrow Creature Killings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tests were run on the two skeletons found in the river?

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

3. What is blastomycosis?

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

5. What does "DISH" stand for in the discussion between Frock, D'Agosta, and Brambell?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. Does the existence of an underground "clan" seem plausible? What do you think is their purpose in the story?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Pendergast reveal about Hayward? How does Hayward feel about this revelation? How does D'Agosta feel about this revelation?

10. Why does Hayward say the tunnels are dangerous? Cite examples from the text.

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