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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. Where do Beauregard's co-workers think he has gone when he disappears from the Superstition Exhibit in Chapter 22?
(a) To lunch.
(b) To report them to Dr.Cuthbert.
(c) Inside the exhibit.
(d) Home.

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

3. What is Cerro Gordo?
(a) The name of an artifact found in the Amazon by the Whittlesey Expedition.
(b) The tribesmen who guided the Whittlesey Expedition into the forest of the Amazon.
(c) The tepui that was the ultimate destination of the Whittlesey Expedition.
(d) The name of Whittlesey's guide on his expedition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Margo to run from the exhibit hall in Chapter 20?

2. What does G.S.E. stand for?

3. What does Maxwell find on September 15 that Whittlesey remarks about in his journal?

4. For what did Pendergast have Dr. Frock search the accession database?

5. Who is William Smithback?

(see the answer key)

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