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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 did Margo discover Greg's lab setup was for?
(a) Curing cancer.
(b) Creating methamphetamine.
(c) Creating a new, potent psychotropic drug.
(d) Synthesizing vitamin D.

2. What is Frock's reasoning for dismissing Margo's theory about the killings?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) He hasn't had a chance to review her scientific analysis.
(c) It goes directly against evolutionary theory.
(d) It is too farfetched.

3. What happened to the Take Back Our City March when the homeless started mingling with the marchers?
(a) The march broke up.
(b) The homeless started stealing things from the marchers.
(c) All of the answers are incorrect.
(d) A riot ensued.

4. What is the closest substitute for the plant hormones that the Mbwun craves?
(a) Crack cocaine.
(b) The hypothalamus.
(c) Black tar heroin.
(d) The thyroid.

5. What does Billy Trumbull do to escape his pursuers?
(a) Outruns them.
(b) Shoots them.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Hides beneath the train.

Short Answer Questions

1. What astonishing theory does Margo come up with about the Mbwun?

2. Who is the head of the NYPD's Tactical Response Unit?

3. What happened to the one mouse that survived the mouse battle, though badly injured?

4. What happened to Jumbo, P.T. Barnum's elephant?

5. What was the name of the new drug out on the street, as mentioned in Chapter 35?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the true reason Kawakita was synthesizing Vitamin D? Do you believe he saw his own end coming and knew what he must do, or do you think it was simply an instinctive move?

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

3. Why do you think the creatures abduct the group determined to destroy them instead of killing them like they have everyone else?

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

5. Why might the huge amount of firepower carried by D'Agosta, Pendergast, and Mephisto be ineffective against the creatures?

6. What starts the riots during the Take Back Our City March? Is this the fault of Mrs. Wisher, the police, or the homeless? Cite examples to support your argument.

7. 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?

8. What is a seemingly positive side effect of the reovirus infection? What might this mean to future testing?

9. What purpose does the scene with the Navy SEALs have?

10. 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?

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