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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Whittlesey see on the dead body on the trial before him that tells him it is human?
(a) A khaki shirt.
(b) A gun.
(c) A pair of leather boots.
(d) A pair of jeans.

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

8. What mistake does security guard Eric Norris make at the crime scene in Chapter 14?
(a) Moves the body.
(b) Steps in blood.
(c) Vomits on evidence.
(d) Calls the police belatedly.

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

10. To what literary work does Whittlesey compare the place where he expects to find the Kothoga people?
(a) Michael Crichton's The Lost World.
(b) Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey.
(c) Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
(d) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

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

12. What is Pendergast's theory as to how the killer is murdering his victims?
(a) With powerful claws containing three points.
(b) With a knife made of animal claws.
(c) With a man-made claw or artifact.
(d) With a weapon that resembles a claw.

13. Why does Pendergast call Dr. Cuthbert down to the Secure Area in Chapter 17?
(a) To show them the Mbwun figure.
(b) To show them the Whittlesey crates.
(c) To show them the entire storage area.
(d) To show them the Siberian eggs.

14. What meal does D'Agosta wish he did not have before attending the autopsy of the two children found dead in the museum?
(a) Double chili cheeseburgers.
(b) Double cheeseburgers.
(c) Double bacon cheeseburgers.
(d) Double hamburgers.

15. Why does Margo accompany Dr. Frock into the basement in Chapter 17?
(a) To visit with Mrs. Rickman.
(b) To visit with D'Agosta.
(c) To visit with Dr. Cuthbert.
(d) To visit with Pendergast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls Margo in Chapter 11 that leaves her emotionally drained and upset?

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

3. What region of the brain is missing from the security guard autopsied in Chapter 23?

4. What is a dissertation?

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

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