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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the security guard tell the red headed child not to touch in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The Indian artifacts.
(b) The lions.
(c) The elephants.
(d) The paintings.

2. Who is Ven?
(a) A thief.
(b) A dock worker.
(c) A sailor.
(d) A dock foreman.

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

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

5. What does Bailey Smith think is the origin of the Museum Beast?
(a) Seedpods from outerspace.
(b) Seedpods from China.
(c) Eggs brought from Siberia.
(d) Eggs from the Amazon.

6. 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 Pachyderm Hall.
(d) The Hall of Crustacean Dinosaurs.

7. Who is Vincent D'Agosta?
(a) An assistant curator.
(b) The police detective in charge.
(c) A writer working on a book about the museum.
(d) The director of the museum.

8. Why does Ippolito believe the killer would not have gone away from the crime scene toward the corridor leading to the secure area?
(a) The corridor is blocked by flood debris.
(b) The corridor can only be accessed by a security card.
(c) The corridor only goes into the basement.
(d) The corridor ends in a deadend.

9. How many claws does the Mbwun figurine have on its front legs?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

10. 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 museum.
(c) It has nothing to do with the Superstition Exhibition.
(d) It was unsuccessful.

11. How does Frock suggest the members of the Whittlesey Expedition were killed?
(a) Some by hostile guides and others in a car crash.
(b) All by hostile natives.
(c) Some by hostile natives and others in a plane crash.
(d) All in a plane crash.

12. 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.

13. What does G.S.E. stand for?
(a) Genetic Sequence Extrapolator.
(b) Gene Splicer Exercise.
(c) Genetic Science Extrapolator.
(d) Gene Sequence Exercise.

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

15. Where was the original Museum of Natural History built?
(a) On a gaseous swamp that still released toxic gas into the subbasement.
(b) On an artesian swamp that could not be properly drained.
(c) On an old river bed.
(d) On an old lake bed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is an outgroup in DNA analysis?

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

4. What does Dr. Frock tell Margo the Ki tribe once used to treat headaches in Chapter 6?

5. Who finds being locked in the break room of the museum in Chapter 4 outrageous?

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