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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is George Moriarty?
(a) Assistant curator to Dr. Frock.
(b) Assitant curator to Dr. Cuthbert.
(c) A reporter.
(d) A graduate student in architecture.

2. What event does Pendergast suggest might have to be postponed during the investigation?
(a) The Superstition Exhibit's design and set up.
(b) The museum employee party.
(c) The Superstition Exhibit opening party.
(d) The museum fund raiser.

3. What causes Margo to run from the exhibit hall in Chapter 20?
(a) A goat-like smell and red, beady eyes.
(b) The yells of a security guard.
(c) The sound of Dr. Cuthbert entering.
(d) A goat-like smell and odd noises.

4. Who does Pendergast tell the independent lab to bill for further testing on the DNA from the claw in Chapter 23?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The New York City Police Department.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The Museum of Natural History.

5. What DNA other than human is found to exist inside the claw found in the chest of one of the young victims of the museum killer?
(a) Australian Gecko.
(b) North American Gecko.
(c) African Gecko.
(d) Turkish Gecko.

6. What does Pendergast show Dr. Wright that causes the doctor physical discomfort?
(a) A tally of the money being lost to the museum during the investigation.
(b) Pictures of the mutilated young boys.
(c) A bill for his services.
(d) Pictures of the latest crime scene.

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

8. Why did Dr. Cuthbert move the Whittlesey crates into the Secure Area?
(a) To keep someone from breaking something inside.
(b) To keep someone from curating them.
(c) To protect them from someone attempting to steal something out of them.
(d) To keep someone from using them in a different exhibit.

9. Why do the authors discuss the growing odd behavior of visitors to the museum and the employees of the museum in Chapter 24?
(a) To explain why the killer chose the museum.
(b) To fill pages.
(c) To distract from the main plot.
(d) To show the growing fear and paranoia involved in the murder investigation.

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

11. What section of the Museum of Natural History does Smithback call a strange graveyard?
(a) The storage area of the Archeology Department.
(b) The storage area of the Physical Anthropology Laboratory.
(c) The Hall of Crustacean Dinosaurs.
(d) The Pachyderm Hall.

12. What has caused the cargo for the museum to be delayed?
(a) A customs problem.
(b) Too large to ship.
(c) Illegal contents.
(d) No one to pay the bill.

13. What does Whittlesey hope to find on this expedition?
(a) Proof of the satanic rituals performed by the Kothoga Indians.
(b) Proof of the religious beliefs of the Kothoga Indians.
(c) Proof of the past existence of the Kothoga Indians.
(d) Proof of the current existence of the Kothoga Indians.

14. Under what discipline does Gregory Kawakita work in the Anthropology Department?
(a) Evolutionary biology.
(b) Ancient tribes of South America.
(c) Evolutionary mutations.
(d) Botany.

15. What does Margo see in the Superstition Exhibition that makes her think Dr. Frock is right about it being purely for entertainment?
(a) Special lighting.
(b) Strobe lights.
(c) Items for sale.
(d) Recorded spooky sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ven?

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

3. Why does Ippolito believe the killer would not have gone away from the crime scene toward the corridor leading to the secure area?

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

5. Who is Ippolito?

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