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

2. What lined the walls of the hut where the Mbwun figure was found?
(a) Carvings.
(b) Bones.
(c) Skulls.
(d) Drawings.

3. Who is Vincent D'Agosta?
(a) The police detective in charge.
(b) An assistant curator.
(c) A writer working on a book about the museum.
(d) The director of the museum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pendergast's theory as to how the killer is murdering his victims?

2. Who calls Margo in Chapter 11 that leaves her emotionally drained and upset?

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

4. Where did Whittlesey find the Mbwun figure?

5. What is a dissertation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Margo Green working on at the Museum of Natural History? Who is her adviser?

5. What effect is the murder investigation having on the Museum of Natural History's visitors and staff?

6. What is the Callisto Effect?

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

8. Why is the local bar, The Blarney Stone Tavern, near the museum referred to as The Bones by museum employees?

9. What does the medical examiner tell D'Agosta about the missing part of the victim's brain and what it does inside the human body?

10. What great find did Whittlesey make shortly after the departure of the other scientists? What does this appear to prove?

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