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

2. Who catches AW duty for the mission
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Clapton.
(c) Hastings.
(d) Beecham.

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

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

5. What does Mephisto ask Margo to do in the event of his death?
(a) Deliver an envelope.
(b) Examine his bones.
(c) Give his wife a message.
(d) Write his biography.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Jumbo, P.T. Barnum's elephant?

3. What does the shaman call his plan for the evolution of mankind?

4. Where does Pendergast tell D'Agosta he must go after the fiasco of Jeffery's interview?

5. What is the name of the sole survivor of the subway massacre?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the police so eager to get the matter concluded hastily without taking the time to analyze all possibilities first?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why do you think the creatures abduct the group determined to destroy them instead of killing them like they have everyone else?

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

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