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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. Who carries the pyros?
(a) Lorenzo.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Campion.
(d) Donovan.

2. What does Donovan tell Snow not to shoot?
(a) Crocodiles.
(b) Rats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Him.

3. How long did the Crown Heights riot last a few years before?
(a) Six hours.
(b) Three days.
(c) A week.
(d) Twenty-two hours.

4. What kind of kit does Pendergast take with him into the tunnels?
(a) A shaving kit.
(b) A gun cleaning kit.
(c) A bomb kit.
(d) A pocket disguise kit.

5. What does Donovan do to "fix up" Snow?
(a) Smears black and green greasepaint on Snow's cheeks and forehead.
(b) Orders him to turn his wetsuit right side out.
(c) Attaches his oxygen tank and filter.
(d) Pushes him in the water before he is ready.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pamela Wisher's boyfriend?

2. What is Snow doing at 10:15 p.m. in Chapter 52?

3. What is the name of the city engineer with whom Pendergast consults?

4. What are NVDs?

5. What model does Pendergast believe the hut follows?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do you think are Pendergast's true intentions in leaving Margo behind when he, Mephisto, and D'Agosta try to destroy the Wrinklers?

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What purpose might hallucinogenic mushrooms serve in the ceremony that Kawakita established?

8. What do you think are Pendergast's true intentions in bringing Mephisto along on the mission to the Crystal Palace?

9. What is the overwhelming feeling you get from the unnamed character in Chapter 34? Does he seem like every megalomaniac created in literature, or is there something different about him?

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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