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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, He Who Walks On All Fours: Chapters 42-48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Pendergast at the crime scene in Chapter 14?
(a) He is investigating a similar set of murders in New Orleans several years before.
(b) He was sent for by the director of the museum.
(c) He is curious about animalistic killings.
(d) He was sent by Washington D.C. to investigate.

2. Who is Ippolito?
(a) Head of Security for the museum.
(b) Head of the New York office of the FBI.
(c) Head of the homicide division of the New York City Police Department.
(d) Head of Public Relations for the museum.

3. What mistake does security guard Eric Norris make at the crime scene in Chapter 14?
(a) Vomits on evidence.
(b) Steps in blood.
(c) Calls the police belatedly.
(d) Moves the body.

4. Why do the authors discuss the growing odd behavior of visitors to the museum and the employees of the museum in Chapter 24?
(a) To distract from the main plot.
(b) To show the growing fear and paranoia involved in the murder investigation.
(c) To explain why the killer chose the museum.
(d) To fill pages.

5. Whose body was supposedly found mutilated in the museum, thus starting the rumor of the museum beast as related to Margo in Chapter 15?
(a) A security guard.
(b) A past director of the museum.
(c) A young museum visitor.
(d) A missing curator, Montague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Margo and Dr. Frock hide from the creature in Chapter 47?

2. What is Pendergast searching for in the basement level of the museum in Chapter 46?

3. What is an outgroup in DNA analysis?

4. Who is Pendergast?

5. What delays the help Beauregard calls for in Chapter 22?

(see the answer key)

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