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

2. On what was the Mbwun plant derivative tested?
(a) E. coli bacteria.
(b) Blue-green algae.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Lab mice.

3. In Chapter 51, where does Mephisto say he was wounded?
(a) In a suicide bombing.
(b) In a shootout with the police at Ruby Ridge.
(c) In the behind.
(d) In the Iron Triangle.

4. Who does Horlocker order his assistant to find in Chapter 38?
(a) Michael Carlin.
(b) Jack Masters.
(c) Jack Miller.
(d) Frank Snow.

5. What happened to the original plant fibers after the Museum Beast was killed?
(a) The CDC confiscated and destroyed them.
(b) No one knows.
(c) The CIA confiscated and cultivated them.
(d) The FBI confiscated and destroyed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Take Back Our City March when the homeless started mingling with the marchers?

2. What weapon is given to Smithback as the group proceeds to set the charges in the Bottleneck?

3. Who carries the pyros?

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

5. What is the hormone that turns a caterpillar into a butterfly?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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.

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

10. One of the subway passengers chooses suicide over being at the mercy of his attackers. What does this indicate to you about the attackers?

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