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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 Hayward carrying that feels heavy and bulky?
(a) A .45 calibur gun.
(b) Food rations.
(c) A Plexiglass riot shield.
(d) A tank of oxygen.

2. What does Margo find in the puddle-like areas on the floor of the burned out warehouse?
(a) Several stolen fossils.
(b) Evidence of marijuana.
(c) The remains of several extinct fish.
(d) The remains of a rare Amazonian plant.

3. What is the name of the sole survivor of the subway massacre?
(a) Antoinette Rucker.
(b) Alberta Muñoz.
(c) Jim Kolb.
(d) Billy Trumbull.

4. What does D'Agosta propose as a temporary alternative to attacking the creatures where they live?
(a) A sneak attack in 72 hours after reconnaissance.
(b) Finding an antidote to the drug.
(c) Gassing the tunnels.
(d) A containment effort.

5. What does Margo try to outrun in Chapter 53?
(a) Pendergast.
(b) A train.
(c) A creature.
(d) Mephisto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the hormone that turns a caterpillar into a butterfly?

2. What building do Waxie and Duffy enter before initiating the drainage sequence?

3. Margo and D'Agosta come to what conclusion about Greg's motivations in taking the drug himself?

4. On what was the Mbwun plant derivative tested?

5. During what event did the creatures abstain from killing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margo plan to figure out what Greg had been doing in his warehouse laboratory?

2. How does Pendergast use his shocking albinism to "blend in" with the outcasts of society in the tunnels? What other methods does he employ, and how is he successful?

3. What does Margo discover in the remains of the laboratory that puts her in a momentary stupor? What does this discovery mean overall?

4. Do you think Waxie was too hasty in naming Jeffery as the serial killer? What reason might Waxie have for such a hasty conclusion?

5. What are the side effects of "glaze"? What might such side effects do to a person's psyche?

6. What does Pendergast find in the Crystal Pavilion that causes him alarm? Why do you think these things scare him?

7. Of what is the subway massacre the first definitive indication? What does this mean to the investigation?

8. What is Margo's theory about what happened to Whittlesey? Examining her scientific approach outlined in the book, do you see any flaws in her theory? Is there another reasonable explanation?

9. Pendergast seems uninterested in the "patterns" revealed by the data comparisons done by computer. There is one that interests him, however. What is that pattern and how might it prove useful to the investigation?

10. Why does Pendergast make a second trip into the tunnels?

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