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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did D'Agosta learn about Pendergast's past that he is not sure he believes?
(a) He was educated in a European boarding school.
(b) He was the sole survivor of a Cambodian death camp in Vietnam.
(c) He was a highly decorated soldier in the early days of Vietnam.
(d) He is the only son of a famous oil tycoon.

2. What do scientists think the Mbwun figure was used for by the Kothoga Indians?
(a) Satanic worship.
(b) Vengence killings.
(c) Religious ceremony.
(d) Revenge killings.

3. What is wrong with Charlie Prine when Margo sees him? Why?
(a) He is under arrest for stealing from the museum.
(b) He is sick because he has the flu that has been going around.
(c) He is sick because he found two dead bodies.
(d) He is under arrest for murder.

4. What strange scent does Ven smell in the warehouse?
(a) A flowery perfume.
(b) A goat-like smell.
(c) A spicy cologne.
(d) A dead mouse smell.

5. Who has control over the content of William Smithback's writing at the Museum of Natural History?
(a) Dr. Cuthbert, Museum Curator.
(b) Lavinia Rickman, Public Relations Officer.
(c) Dr. Wright, Museum Director.
(d) Dr. Frock, Museum Curator.

6. Who is Ippolito?
(a) Head of the homicide division of the New York City Police Department.
(b) Head of Public Relations for the museum.
(c) Head of Security for the museum.
(d) Head of the New York office of the FBI.

7. What delays the help Beauregard calls for in Chapter 22?
(a) No one believes him.
(b) It is a joke.
(c) The curfew has sent everyone home.
(d) Everyone is busy.

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

9. Who is Beauregard?
(a) A cop assigned to guard the Superstition Exhibit.
(b) A graduate student at the museum working in the Superstition Exhibit.
(c) A relative of Dr. Cuthbert working in the Superstition Exhibit.
(d) A security guard at the museum guarding the Superstition Exhibit.

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

11. What lined the walls of the hut where the Mbwun figure was found?
(a) Drawings.
(b) Bones.
(c) Carvings.
(d) Skulls.

12. In Chapter 15, who claimed to have seen the museum creature one morning as it slunk around a corner in the basement?
(a) Mike Herron from the gift shop.
(b) Dr. Frock.
(c) Dr. Cuthbert.
(d) Carl Conover from the metal shop.

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

14. Why does Beauregard call for help when he hears a noise in the Superstition Exhibit?
(a) He wants to show off his bravery.
(b) Procedure.
(c) Orders from Cuthbert.
(d) He is afraid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the original Museum of Natural History in 1911?

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

3. Why does a security guard open a door to an interior courtyard in Chapter 12?

4. Where were the red-haired child and his older brother, Billy, supposed to meet their parents after visiting the Museum of Natural History?

5. Who is Vincent D'Agosta?

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