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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 41 - 45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of machine does Catherine Martin hear while she is in the pit?
(a) A car.
(b) A washing machine.
(c) A refrigerator.
(d) A sewing machine.

2. What does Noble Pilcher tell Clarice that the word "moth" once meant?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Oblivion.
(c) Death.
(d) Destruction.

3. How does Buffalo Bill abduct his latest victim in Chapter 15?
(a) He feigns trying to load furniture on a truck with a broken arm.
(b) He asks her out on a date and abducts her.
(c) He abducts her while she is jogging.
(d) He kidnaps her from a girlfriend's house.

4. What are the entomologists using to play chess?
(a) Checkers.
(b) A rhinoceros beetle.
(c) Cheese and crackers shaped like chess pieces.
(d) A marble chess set.

5. In Chapter 42, who calls Jack Crawford with information about an urgent bulletin?
(a) Clarice.
(b) Dr. Chilton
(c) Jerry Burroughs.
(d) Paul Krendler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature from her childhood reminds Clarice of Dr. Chilton?

2. What is used by the people in the morgue to mask the smell of decay?

3. Why doesn't Clarice like Albert Roden?

4. What kind of insect does the Erebus odora cocoon belong to?

5. Describe Dr. Lecter's "lodgings" and "uniform" while his cell is being cleaned.

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