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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 the name of the city engineer with whom Pendergast consults?
(a) Al Tillman.
(b) Al Sharp.
(c) Al Diamond.
(d) Al Braxton.

2. For what purpose does Margo conclude Greg was synthesizing Vitamin D?
(a) To coat the walls of the skull hut.
(b) To use as a food source.
(c) To cure a deficiency.
(d) To use as a weapon.

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

4. What is Waxie's suggestion to kill the creatures?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Electrocution.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Methane gas.

5. What does Pendergast say would be foolish if he is gone more than 72 hours?
(a) A rescue mission.
(b) A funeral.
(c) The assumption that he is dead.
(d) A sting operation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the experimental herbicide for removing algae from lakes?

4. What does Margo try to outrun in Chapter 53?

5. On what team are Donovan and Snow?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What is the true nature of the ritual Kawakita established among the Wrinklers?

7. What would be the far-reaching effects of drowning the Wrinklers in the manner mentioned in Chapter 40?

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

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

10. 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?

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