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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is significant about the Mbwun figure?
(a) It is made of pure gold.
(b) It contains the secret of the Kothoga.
(c) It represents a figure important to Kothoga mythology.
(d) It contains the secrets of the jungle.

7. 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) Strobe lights.
(c) Special lighting.
(d) Items for sale.

8. 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 cheeseburgers.
(b) Double bacon cheeseburgers.
(c) Double hamburgers.
(d) Double chili cheeseburgers.

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 show the growing fear and paranoia involved in the murder investigation.
(d) To distract from the main plot.

10. Why is Pendergast at the crime scene in Chapter 14?
(a) He is investigating a similar set of murders in New Orleans several years before.
(b) He is curious about animalistic killings.
(c) He was sent for by the director of the museum.
(d) He was sent by Washington D.C. to investigate.

11. Where does the owner of The Blarney Stone Tavern claim he got the bones that he has nailed to the walls of his bar?
(a) He says they are the bones of his ancestors.
(b) He says he raids cemeteries at night.
(c) He says they are the bones of his enemies.
(d) He says he raids the museum at night.

12. What does the medical examiner find inside the chest of one of the young victims of the museum murders?
(a) A knife.
(b) A museum artifact.
(c) A claw.
(d) A fingernail.

13. Who joins Margo in the herbarium in Chapter 15, helping her distract the curator so that she might collect what she needs?
(a) FBI Agent Pendergast.
(b) Gregory Kawakita.
(c) William Smithback Jr.
(d) Dr. Frock.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does Margo accompany Dr. Frock into the basement in Chapter 17?

3. Where and when does the second chapter take place?

4. 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?

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

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