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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Superstition Exhibition: Chapters 33-41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Margo not tell the security guard about the noise and the smell she experienced in the Superstition Exhibit hall?
(a) He might think she is crazy.
(b) She wants to forget it ever happened.
(c) She does not want him to know she was in there.
(d) He already knew about it.

2. What does Dr. Frock tell Margo the Ki tribe once used to treat headaches in Chapter 6?
(a) Aloe.
(b) Tree bark.
(c) Poppy seeds.
(d) Poison ivy.

3. Who joins Margo in the herbarium in Chapter 15, helping her distract the curator so that she might collect what she needs?
(a) Gregory Kawakita.
(b) FBI Agent Pendergast.
(c) Dr. Frock.
(d) William Smithback Jr.

4. What is myth triangulation?
(a) A theory in which a scientist can pinpoint the location of a tribe or artifact by using details in many different myths.
(b) A theory that a myth's location can be determined by the number of people who have heard it.
(c) A theory that myths of a certain region often share three distinct details.
(d) A theory that nothing in a myth is accurate to reality.

5. What evidence does Pendergast present that the killer is eating the hypothalamus gland of his victims?
(a) The missing gland.
(b) Salt and pepper on the other parts of the brain.
(c) Bite marks and saliva.
(d) Bite marks and oral blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margo see in the Superstition Exhibition that makes her think Dr. Frock is right about it being purely for entertainment?

2. In what way does Pendergast suggest Dr. Wright is obstructing the murder investigation?

3. What did D'Agosta learn about Pendergast's past that he is not sure he believes?

4. Where does the owner of The Blarney Stone Tavern claim he got the bones that he has nailed to the walls of his bar?

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

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