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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 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 vomits at a crime scene.
(b) He moves the body at a crime scene.
(c) He faints at a crime scene.
(d) He steps in blood at a crime scene.

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

3. Who is George Moriarty?
(a) Assitant curator to Dr. Cuthbert.
(b) A graduate student in architecture.
(c) Assistant curator to Dr. Frock.
(d) A reporter.

4. Why does Margo not tell the security guard about the noise and the smell she experienced in the Superstition Exhibit hall?
(a) He already knew about it.
(b) She does not want him to know she was in there.
(c) He might think she is crazy.
(d) She wants to forget it ever happened.

5. 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 murder.
(d) He is under arrest for stealing from the museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Margo call Greg Kawakita in Chapter 20?

2. What is an herbarium?

3. What did D'Agosta learn about Pendergast's past that he is not sure he believes?

4. Who is Ippolito?

5. What region of the brain is missing from the security guard autopsied in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Mbwun figure? What happened when it was added to the Superstition Exhibit?

2. What does the director of the museum tell the press after the murder of two children in the museum?

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

4. What does Margo smell in the Superstition Exhibit hall that frightens her? Where has the reader heard of this scent previously in the novel?

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

6. Why is D'Agosta called to the Computer Room in Chapter 26? What happens while he is there?

7. What does Margo Green find when she reports for work on Monday morning in Chapter 3?

8. What happened to the rest of Whittlesey's team?

9. 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?

10. What is Dr. Frock's main complaint about Dr. Cuthbert's new exhibit at the Museum of Natural History?

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