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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Museum of Unnatural History: Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a stevedore?
(a) Someone who takes luggage into guest cabins on a ship.
(b) Someone who loads ships.
(c) Someone who navigates on a cruise ship.
(d) Someone who serves food on a ship.

2. Why does Ippolito believe the killer would not have gone away from the crime scene toward the corridor leading to the secure area?
(a) The corridor is blocked by flood debris.
(b) The corridor can only be accessed by a security card.
(c) The corridor only goes into the basement.
(d) The corridor ends in a deadend.

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

4. What is the name of the new exhibit being developed for the museum?
(a) Religious Ceremonies of Aboriginal People.
(b) New World Discoveries.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Supernatural.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jost Von Oster?

2. Why does the red-haired kid follow his brother, Billy, into a dark, cavernous room?

3. To whom does Whittlesey write a letter before sending his crates away?

4. What is an herbarium?

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

(see the answer key)

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