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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the guard at the Superstition Exhibit hall door turn Margo away in Chapter 20?
(a) The exhibit is too dangerous to allow anyone to walk through.
(b) The exhibit is not in her scientific specialty.
(c) The exhibit is under construction.
(d) The exhibit is sealed until the opening night party.

3. What does Whittlesey notice about the local vegetation at the site of the hut where the Mbwun was found?
(a) It appears florescent.
(b) It appears primordial.
(c) It appears to overgrowing the hut.
(d) It appears dead.

4. What happens to D'Agosta at the crime scene in Chapter 14 that has not happened to him in more than twenty years of police work?
(a) He faints at a crime scene.
(b) He vomits at a crime scene.
(c) He moves the body at a crime scene.
(d) He steps in blood at a crime scene.

5. Why does Margo call Greg Kawakita in Chapter 20?
(a) To ask to use his dissertation notes on the Kiribitu tribe.
(b) To ask help in classifying plants for the Superstition Exhibition.
(c) To ask to use his G.S.E. program.
(d) To ask help in finding out more information on the Whittlesey Expedition.

6. Who finds being locked in the break room of the museum in Chapter 4 outrageous?
(a) Dr. Kawakita.
(b) Dr. Freed.
(c) Dr. Green.
(d) Dr. Prine.

7. In what part of the museum is Margo Green's office located?
(a) The basement.
(b) The top floor.
(c) The subbasement.
(d) An annex building.

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

9. What is an outgroup in DNA analysis?
(a) The DNA being examined.
(b) A group of unknown DNA to be compared to the sample being analyzed.
(c) The control or known DNA type.
(d) The species with which the DNA is most likely to match.

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

11. Who is Pendergast?
(a) An agent with Homeland Security.
(b) An FBI agent.
(c) A New York City cop.
(d) A CIA agent.

12. Why does the red-haired kid follow his brother, Billy, into a dark, cavernous room?
(a) To find his parents.
(b) His mother told him to stay with Billy no matter what.
(c) He is afraid of being lost and alone.
(d) To see the lions.

13. What is a dissertation?
(a) A book report written by a college student.
(b) A research project based on scientific theory.
(c) A book length work written by a doctoral student on a specific subject.
(d) A lecture presented by a doctoral student to an undergraduate class.

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

15. How much force does the coroner's office suggest it would require to create the lacerations on the security guard's body in one stroke?
(a) The average strength of a human female.
(b) Twice what a human male can achieve.
(c) The average strength of a human male.
(d) Four times what a human male can achieve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has caused the cargo for the museum to be delayed?

2. Where does the owner of The Blarney Stone Tavern claim he got the bones that he has nailed to the walls of his bar?

3. Who is Ven?

4. Who do D'Agosta and Pendergast wait to see in the opening paragraphs of Chapter 16?

5. Why does Rickman refuse to allow Smithback to write about the Gilborg expedition?

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