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

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

3. What happens to D'Agosta at the crime scene in Chapter 14 that has not happened to him in more than twenty years of police work?
(a) He moves the body at a crime scene.
(b) He steps in blood at a crime scene.
(c) He faints at a crime scene.
(d) He vomits at a crime scene.

4. In what part of the museum is Margo Green's office located?
(a) An annex building.
(b) The subbasement.
(c) The top floor.
(d) The basement.

5. What is significant about the Mbwun figure?
(a) It is made of pure gold.
(b) It contains the secrets of the jungle.
(c) It represents a figure important to Kothoga mythology.
(d) It contains the secret of the Kothoga.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Whittlesey's Expedition taking place?

2. Who has control over the content of William Smithback's writing at the Museum of Natural History?

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

4. What has caused the cargo for the museum to be delayed?

5. What relative of Margo's died in the weeks before the opening of the main plot of the novel?

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