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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to the original Museum of Natural History in 1911?
(a) It burned down.
(b) It was destroyed in an earthquake.
(c) It was moved to higher ground.
(d) It sank into soft soil.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Frock tell Margo the Ki tribe once used to treat headaches in Chapter 6?

2. Who is Beauregard?

3. Why does Beauregard call for help when he hears a noise in the Superstition Exhibit?

4. What delays the help Beauregard calls for in Chapter 22?

5. Who is Vincent D'Agosta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pendergast require of Dr. Wright in order to begin a successful investigation into the murders in the museum?

2. What does Pendergast show Dr. Frock in Chapter 18? What is Dr. Frock's reaction?

3. How does Margo end up in the Superstition Exhibit hall in Chapter 20?

4. What began the rumor of the museum beast?

5. What is Dr. Whittlesey doing as the novel begins? Why is this important?

6. What do the scientists at the independent lab tell Pendergast and D'Agosta in Chapter 23 about the DNA sample taken from the claw found in the chest of one of the victims?

7. What does Smithback ask Kawakita to help him with in Chapter 25? Why does Kawakita refuse?

8. What is a scientific expedition?

9. What connection between the killer and the Mbwun figurine does Margo make in Chapter 25?

10. What is the Callisto Effect?

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