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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. The man Hayward rescued in the tunnels is whose son?

2. Who is Pamela Wisher's boyfriend?

3. In Chapter 51, where does Mephisto say he was wounded?

4. What does Margo do with the charred notebook?

5. Why is it believed the creatures live in the deepest recesses of the tunnel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a seemingly positive side effect of the reovirus infection? What might this mean to future testing?

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

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

4. 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?

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. Pendergast seems uninterested in the "patterns" revealed by the data comparisons done by computer. There is one that interests him, however. What is that pattern and how might it prove useful to the investigation?

7. What does Margo discover in the remains of the laboratory that puts her in a momentary stupor? What does this discovery mean overall?

8. 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.

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

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

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

Review the symbolism involved in the hut of skulls. What does this represent to the Wrinklers? What does it represent to outsiders? What does it represent to the shaman? How does the hut play into the Wrinklers' ceremony? Cite examples from the text to support your explanation.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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