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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. Why does Waxie call D'Agosta and Hayward to his office in Chapter 30?

2. For what purpose does Margo conclude Greg was synthesizing Vitamin D?

3. What is the name of the Museum scientist who disappeared in the Amazon ten years earlier?

4. What is the name of the city engineer with whom Pendergast consults?

5. What disturbs Margo about the events taking place in the gun locker with Pendergast, Mephisto, and D'Agosta?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Pendergast use his shocking albinism to "blend in" with the outcasts of society in the tunnels? What other methods does he employ, and how is he successful?

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frock is unmasked as the shaman, the man behind the propagation of the Wrinklers. Why is this such a shock to the people trying to stop the Wrinklers? In hindsight, does it make sense? What reasoning does Frock give for his transgressions? Do you feel he has a valid point, or do you think he's simply another drug addict? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Margo briefly explains the importance of ceremony in anthropological terms. The Wrinklers perform a ceremony with their shaman and their drug. What does ceremony mean to a populace? What need does it satisfy in man? Apply those theories to the ceremony performed by the Wrinklers. What is similar? What is different? What seems to be the base purpose for the Wrinklers' ceremony?

Essay Topic 3

The second skeleton is a huge mystery to the people investigating and examining it. They can find no obvious cause for the extensive remodeling of the bone structure and are baffled by its existence. What are some of the theories put forward initially? What happens when the skeleton is finally identified?

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