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

2. What was the name of the new drug out on the street, as mentioned in Chapter 35?
(a) Rocket.
(b) Quicksilver.
(c) Firebrand.
(d) Glaze.

3. What did Margo discover Greg's lab setup was for?
(a) Curing cancer.
(b) Synthesizing vitamin D.
(c) Creating a new, potent psychotropic drug.
(d) Creating methamphetamine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Margo believe is necessary to release the drug into the ecosystem?

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

4. What does Pendergast say that they can be sure of regarding the creatures?

5. What building do Waxie and Duffy enter before initiating the drainage sequence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Do you think Waxie was too hasty in naming Jeffery as the serial killer? What reason might Waxie have for such a hasty conclusion?

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

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

10. What do you think are Pendergast's true intentions in bringing Mephisto along on the mission to the Crystal Palace?

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