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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. In Chapter 15, who claimed to have seen the museum creature one morning as it slunk around a corner in the basement?
(a) Dr. Frock.
(b) Dr. Cuthbert.
(c) Carl Conover from the metal shop.
(d) Mike Herron from the gift shop.

2. What is myth triangulation?
(a) A theory in which a scientist can pinpoint the location of a tribe or artifact by using details in many different myths.
(b) A theory that myths of a certain region often share three distinct details.
(c) A theory that nothing in a myth is accurate to reality.
(d) A theory that a myth's location can be determined by the number of people who have heard it.

3. What happened to the shot that Pendergast got off on the killer in Chapter 46?
(a) It went into a window beside the killer.
(b) It went into the killer's leg.
(c) It went wild.
(d) It bounced off the killer's skull.

4. What is an outgroup in DNA analysis?
(a) The control or known DNA type.
(b) The species with which the DNA is most likely to match.
(c) The DNA being examined.
(d) A group of unknown DNA to be compared to the sample being analyzed.

5. What amusing program does the computer programmer show the police officer guarding the computer room in Chapter 42?
(a) Mummies exploring the words on the screen.
(b) Multiplying bugs that eventually eat one another.
(c) Mummies multiplying and then exploding.
(d) Multiplying bugs that explode.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a security guard open a door to an interior courtyard in Chapter 12?

2. What meal does D'Agosta wish he did not have before attending the autopsy of the two children found dead in the museum?

3. Who does Margo call after leaving the Superstition Exhibit in Chapter 21?

4. Why will Ippolito not allow the law enforcement officers into the Secure Area of the museum in Chapter 14?

5. What first alerts Pendergast that the killer has come into the corridor with him?

(see the answer key)

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