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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 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.

2. What disturbs Margo about the events taking place in the gun locker with Pendergast, Mephisto, and D'Agosta?
(a) Mephisto is handed a gun.
(b) Pendergast is too eager to begin fighting.
(c) D'Agosta seems frightened by what is approaching.
(d) She isn't given any gear.

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

4. Who is Jennifer Lake?
(a) D'Agosta's sister.
(b) The museum collection librarian.
(c) The museum curator.
(d) Margo's lab assistant.

5. What is the name of the other ex-transit police officer in Hayward's group?
(a) Holliday.
(b) Miller.
(c) Carlin.
(d) Horlocker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pendergast say is the creature's gathering point?

2. What does Pendergast say that they can be sure of regarding the creatures?

3. What did Margo discover Greg's lab setup was for?

4. What weapon does Pendergast prepare before they set the charges in the Bottleneck?

5. For what unit is Commander Rachlin the Patrol Leader?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mephisto's letter given to Margo for delivery tell you about Mephisto?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. What does Smithback view that leads him to believe his ambition might have finally taken him too far? Do you think his fear is because he feels his mortality or because he has seen the mortality of others?

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

10. 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?

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