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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 the survivor of the subway massacre say about the attackers' features?
(a) They had devil eyes.
(b) They had old faces.
(c) They had lizard eyes.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. What happened to the Take Back Our City March when the homeless started mingling with the marchers?
(a) The march broke up.
(b) A riot ensued.
(c) All of the answers are incorrect.
(d) The homeless started stealing things from the marchers.

3. What model does Pendergast believe the hut follows?
(a) The Japanese Wine Ceremony.
(b) The Japanese Lotus Ceremony.
(c) The Japanese Tea Ceremony.
(d) The Japanese Wedding Ceremony.

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

5. What happened to the one mouse that survived the mouse battle, though badly injured?
(a) It completely healed in minutes.
(b) It chewed throught the bars of its cage and escaped.
(c) It continued to fight.
(d) It ran itself into the bars of its cage until it died.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what was the Mbwun plant derivative tested?

2. What do they symbols carved into the hut mean?

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

4. What does Frock do when he enters the "war room" in Chapter 40?

5. What does Mephisto ask Margo to do in the event of his death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. Do you think that Bill Smithback is being used by Anette Wisher as a tool to carry out her own plans? Why do you think so? Cite examples from the text to support your explanation.

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

8. 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?

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

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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