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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. How does Snow view his pending mission with the Navy SEALS?
(a) As a terrifying adventure.
(b) As a chance for redemption.
(c) As a burden forced upon him.
(d) As the opportunity of a lifetime.

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

3. What is the hormone that turns a caterpillar into a butterfly?
(a) Resotropin-x.
(b) MTHFR.
(c) Thyoxin.
(d) BSTH.

4. Who is the head of the NYPD's Tactical Response Unit?
(a) Hausmann.
(b) Horlocker.
(c) Masters.
(d) Milner.

5. What does the shaman call his plan for the evolution of mankind?
(a) Return to World Disorder.
(b) The Holocene Discontinuity.
(c) The Completion of Evolution.
(d) The Breaking of Australopithecus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the FBI agent on duty in the Armory Division reading?

2. The man Hayward rescued in the tunnels is whose son?

3. Where is Pendergast's map?

4. How does Hayward disarm the group of boys heading for the march?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Margo's lab findings on the reovirus seem to indicate? How do these findings translate to the infection of humans?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What does the Navy SEALs involvement tell you about the seriousness of the matter?

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

9. What do you think the symbols Pendergast discovered, which translate to a description of a Japanese tea room, mean to the creatures?

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

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