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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 the name of the experimental herbicide for removing algae from lakes?
2. What is the name of the city engineer with whom Pendergast consults?
3. What does Hayward say to Pendergast when he asks her if she has any last words?
4. What is thrown at the officers in Chapter 46?
5. Who is the head of the NYPD's Tactical Response Unit?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the true nature of the ritual Kawakita established among the Wrinklers?
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. What is Margo's theory about what happened to Whittlesey? Examining her scientific approach outlined in the book, do you see any flaws in her theory? Is there another reasonable explanation?
4. What does Mephisto's letter given to Margo for delivery tell you about Mephisto?
5. What does Pendergast find in the Crystal Pavilion that causes him alarm? Why do you think these things scare him?
6. What does Smithback view that leads him to believe his ambition might have finally taken him too far? Do you think his fear is because he feels his mortality or because he has seen the mortality of others?
7. What is a seemingly positive side effect of the reovirus infection? What might this mean to future testing?
8. What do you think are Pendergast's true intentions in leaving Margo behind when he, Mephisto, and D'Agosta try to destroy the Wrinklers?
9. Why are the police so eager to get the matter concluded hastily without taking the time to analyze all possibilities first?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
There is a dichotomy illustrated in Anette Wisher's efforts to solve the murder of her child and Mephisto's efforts to solve the murders of his "children." Compare/contrast their methods, outlining what seems to be working and what doesn't seem to be working. Can you see the similarities in their methods? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Margo went through a terrifying experience only eighteen months before this newest horror comes to light. The book gives the reader some insight into Margo before and after the Museum Beast experience. How has Margo changed, both physically and mentally?
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