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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Superstition Exhibition: Chapters 27-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Secure Area?
(a) An area where only security guards are allowed to congregate.
(b) An area where money and expensive items from the gift shop are kept.
(c) An area where the museum director keeps his research.
(d) A room where extremely important or delicate artifacts are kept.

2. What relative of Margo's died in the weeks before the opening of the main plot of the novel?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

4. What event does Pendergast suggest might have to be postponed during the investigation?
(a) The museum fund raiser.
(b) The Superstition Exhibit's design and set up.
(c) The museum employee party.
(d) The Superstition Exhibit opening party.

5. Why does Frock think Dr. Wright wants to go on with the Superstition party despite the murders?
(a) To tempt the killer.
(b) Reputation.
(c) Money.
(d) Fun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bailey Smith think is the origin of the Museum Beast?

2. What region of the brain is missing from the security guard autopsied in Chapter 23?

3. What is Pendergast's theory as to how the killer is murdering his victims?

4. Who is Charlie Prine?

5. How does Moriarty recover the information on the removal of Whittlesey's journal?

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