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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 Margo try to outrun in Chapter 53?
(a) Mephisto.
(b) A train.
(c) A creature.
(d) Pendergast.

2. The shaman is soon identified as who?
(a) Waxie.
(b) Sergeant Hayward.
(c) Dr. Frock.
(d) Jack Miller.

3. What does Miller do when caught in the crowd of moles?
(a) Runs away from protection.
(b) Hides in a cubby.
(c) Releases tear gas.
(d) Shoots to kill.

4. What are NVDs?
(a) Night vision devices.
(b) Near velocity devices.
(c) Necro vision devices.
(d) Night vermin detectors.

5. Who is Pamela Wisher's boyfriend?
(a) Jack Masters.
(b) Clarence Kozinsky.
(c) Jim Kolb.
(d) The Viscount Adair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hayward say to Pendergast when he asks her if she has any last words?

2. What does Billy Trumbull do to escape his pursuers?

3. Who is Jennifer Lake?

4. How long is the dump of a hundred million gallons of water expected to take?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 nature of the ritual Kawakita established among the Wrinklers?

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

6. Why does Pendergast make a second trip into the tunnels?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. 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.

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