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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Superstition Exhibition: Chapters 21-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who developed the theory of myth triangulation?
(a) Dr. Cuthbert.
(b) Dr. Frock.
(c) Dr. Wright.
(d) Dr. Whittlesey.

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

4. How much force does the coroner's office suggest it would require to create the lacerations on the security guard's body in one stroke?
(a) The average strength of a human male.
(b) Four times what a human male can achieve.
(c) Twice what a human male can achieve.
(d) The average strength of a human female.

5. Why does Margo call Greg Kawakita in Chapter 20?
(a) To ask help in classifying plants for the Superstition Exhibition.
(b) To ask help in finding out more information on the Whittlesey Expedition.
(c) To ask to use his dissertation notes on the Kiribitu tribe.
(d) To ask to use his G.S.E. program.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Kothoga mean?

3. What lined the walls of the hut where the Mbwun figure was found?

4. Why does Beauregard call for help when he hears a noise in the Superstition Exhibit?

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

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