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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Snow preparing to do at the opening of Chapter 1?
2. What does Pendergast say is the largest inhabited region on earth that remains unmapped?
3. What does Smithback's informant say his name is?
4. What was the Tower modeled after?
5. How much is the reward for information into the murders?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is ironic about using the muse of rhetoric, Polyhymnia, to name an ornate club in Chapter 10? Does its patronage seem to have anything to do with it?
2. What are the repercussions of the $100,000 reward posted by Bill Smithback and the Post?
3. To what does Dr. Frock attribute the Mbwun's existence and its unlikely appearance in New York?
4. In Chapter 8, an unknown person develops extra sensitive senses, apparently by ingesting some unknown drug. What do you think is the purpose of this character's in-depth description and failing to tell the reader who he is?
5. What do you think is the author's purpose in describing Sergeant Hayward's physical characteristics in such detail?
6. What is the history of Mbwun, and why is it assumed that these killings might relate to the events surrounding this creature?
7. Does the existence of an underground "clan" seem plausible? What do you think is their purpose in the story?
8. Police work seems to involve a lot of political jostling and brown-nosing. How is that concept illustrated in Chapter 11?
9. Why does Hayward say the tunnels are dangerous? Cite examples from the text.
10. Why is there so much excitement surrounding the second skeleton found in the polluted Cloaca?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Though Dr. Brambell and Dr. Frock disagree often, they do agree on one thing: the skeletons show obvious signs of teeth marks. Compare/contrast their first theories on the teeth marks in the bone, how they got there, and what type of animal might have left them. What do you think is the true source of their contention?
Essay Topic 2
Greg Kawakita is a key part of the reason the city is being overrun with murders. He is long gone, but his legacy of madness lives on in those he "infected" with the drug, glaze. How do you think Kawakita rationalized giving the drug to others when he already knew it was what created the Mwbun? How do you think he rationalized taking it himself?
Essay Topic 3
Hayward is an interesting character, a woman of strength, confidence and utter self-assurance. Margo is strong, but in different ways with different approaches to problem solving. Compare/contrast Margo and Hayward, particularly their strengths and weaknesses. What does each character contribute to the storyline?
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