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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 Rickman refuse to allow Smithback to write about the Gilborg expedition?
(a) It is too controversial.
(b) It has nothing to do with the Superstition Exhibition.
(c) It was unsuccessful.
(d) It has nothing to do with the museum.

2. How did the Whittlesey Expedition get to the upper reaches of the Xingu as described in Whittlesey's journal?
(a) On foot.
(b) Jeep.
(c) By boat.
(d) Helicopter.

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

4. To whom does Whittlesey write a letter before sending his crates away?
(a) Montague.
(b) Crocker.
(c) Cuthbert.
(d) Maxwell.

5. According to Whittlesey's journal, why did Maxwell and the others decide to return to New York?
(a) They want to take their finds home to study them.
(b) They miss their families.
(c) They do not think there is anything else to find.
(d) They are sick and frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What delays the help Beauregard calls for in Chapter 22?

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

3. Why did Dr. Cuthbert move the Whittlesey crates into the Secure Area?

4. Who has the Whittlesey journal?

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

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