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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Museum of Unnatural Mystery: Chapters 10-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what literary work does Whittlesey compare the place where he expects to find the Kothoga people?
(a) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
(b) Michael Crichton's The Lost World.
(c) Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
(d) Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey.

2. 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 missing curator, Montague.
(b) A past director of the museum.
(c) A young museum visitor.
(d) A security guard.

3. What does the medical examiner find inside the chest of one of the young victims of the museum murders?
(a) A knife.
(b) A museum artifact.
(c) A claw.
(d) A fingernail.

4. Who is Vincent D'Agosta?
(a) The director of the museum.
(b) A writer working on a book about the museum.
(c) The police detective in charge.
(d) An assistant curator.

5. Why does a security guard open a door to an interior courtyard in Chapter 12?
(a) To smoke a joint.
(b) To have a snack under the moonlight.
(c) To check on the security of the courtyard.
(d) To smoke a cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the original Museum of Natural History in 1911?

2. What is a dissertation?

3. Why is Pendergast at the crime scene in Chapter 14?

4. Where did Whittlesey find the Mbwun figure?

5. In Chapter 15, who claimed to have seen the museum creature one morning as it slunk around a corner in the basement?

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