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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. Whom does Smithback run into after witnessing the horrible destruction of a group of policemen in the tunnels?
(a) Miller.
(b) Duffy.
(c) Waxie.
(d) Hayward.

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

3. What is the name of the Museum scientist who disappeared in the Amazon ten years earlier?
(a) Jonathan Weekly.
(b) Jacques Whitesides.
(c) James Walker.
(d) Julian Whittlesey.

4. What weapon does Pendergast prepare before they set the charges in the Bottleneck?
(a) .22 calibur gun.
(b) Grenade launcher.
(c) Flamethrower.
(d) Pipe bomb.

5. Why does Pendergast believe the creatures spared their lives?
(a) To save for later meals.
(b) To become part of the ceremony.
(c) To cure them.
(d) To turn them into creatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Waxie's suggestion to kill the creatures?

2. How does Snow view his pending mission with the Navy SEALS?

3. What supposedly happens when the Mbwun plant is eaten?

4. What are the Wrinklers doing in the Crystal Pavilion when Margo looks down on them in horror?

5. What is Hayward carrying that feels heavy and bulky?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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 is the true nature of the ritual Kawakita established among the Wrinklers?

9. 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.

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

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