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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Beauregard?
(a) A security guard at the museum guarding the Superstition Exhibit.
(b) A cop assigned to guard 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.

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

3. Whose body was supposedly found mutilated in the museum, thus starting the rumor of the museum beast as related to Margo in Chapter 15?
(a) A security guard.
(b) A young museum visitor.
(c) A missing curator, Montague.
(d) A past director of the museum.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. What does Kothoga mean?
(a) Shadow people.
(b) Devil's children.
(c) Death men.
(d) Animal people.

9. What is an herbarium?
(a) A place where plant life is stored in the museum.
(b) A place where seeds can be purchased.
(c) A place where illegal drugs are grown.
(d) A place where spices are sold.

10. Where and when does the second chapter take place?
(a) New York, 1995.
(b) The Amazon, 1986.
(c) London, 1987.
(d) Brazil, 1988.

11. 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 to overgrowing the hut.
(c) It appears dead.
(d) It appears primordial.

12. Who does Margo call after leaving the Superstition Exhibit in Chapter 21?
(a) George Moriarty.
(b) Dr. Frock.
(c) William Smithback.
(d) Gregory Kawakita.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Whittlesey see on the dead body on the trial before him that tells him it is human?

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

3. What does Margo see in the Superstition Exhibition that makes her think Dr. Frock is right about it being purely for entertainment?

4. What does Whittlesey hope to find on this expedition?

5. What is the name of the new exhibit being developed for the museum?

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