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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who calls Margo in Chapter 11 that leaves her emotionally drained and upset?
(a) Dr. Frock.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her friend, Jan.
(d) Smithback.

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

4. Who does Pendergast tell the independent lab to bill for further testing on the DNA from the claw in Chapter 23?
(a) The Museum of Natural History.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The New York City Police Department.

5. 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 enemies.
(b) He says he raids the museum at night.
(c) He says they are the bones of his ancestors.
(d) He says he raids cemeteries at night.

6. 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 was sent for by the director of the museum.
(c) He was sent by Washington D.C. to investigate.
(d) He is curious about animalistic killings.

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

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

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

10. 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) Twice what a human male can achieve.
(b) The average strength of a human female.
(c) Four times what a human male can achieve.
(d) The average strength of a human male.

11. Who is Charlie Prine?
(a) A guest of the museum.
(b) A cop.
(c) A conservation expert in the Anthropology department.
(d) The director of the Museum.

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

13. To whom does Whittlesey write a letter before sending his crates away?
(a) Maxwell.
(b) Montague.
(c) Crocker.
(d) Cuthbert.

14. Under what discipline does Gregory Kawakita work in the Anthropology Department?
(a) Botany.
(b) Evolutionary mutations.
(c) Evolutionary biology.
(d) Ancient tribes of South America.

15. Who is Jost Von Oster?
(a) Head of the anthropological department.
(b) Head of the osteological preparation area.
(c) Head of exhibition arrangement.
(d) Head of security.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is myth triangulation?

2. Where is Whittlesey's Expedition taking place?

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

4. Where were the red-haired child and his older brother, Billy, supposed to meet their parents after visiting the Museum of Natural History?

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

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