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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 the commander of the SWAT team tell Coffey is his priority once inside the museum?
(a) Restoring power to the museum.
(b) Rescuing the survivors.
(c) Killing the creature.
(d) Removing the dead.

2. What reasons does Pendergast give that the killer is human?
(a) The microscopic evidence left at the scene.
(b) The precision with which the killer removes the hypothalamus.
(c) The location of the killings.
(d) The intelligence with which the killer kills.

3. Who has the Whittlesey journal?
(a) Wright.
(b) Rickman.
(c) Cuthbert.
(d) Frock.

4. How does Smithback manage to get into the library archives?
(a) He pretends to be a librarian from the science library.
(b) He gets a pass from Dr. Wright.
(c) He flirts with the young, pretty librarian.
(d) He pretends to be a reporter from Times.

5. What reason does Rickman give for changing the way in which Smithback is allowed to gather information for his manuscript?
(a) He is unprofessional.
(b) He is intrusive.
(c) He is unreliable.
(d) He is interfering in the daily work at the museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rickman change the way interviews will be conducted by Smithback for his manuscript?

2. What does the old woman, according to Whittlesey's journal, warn will happen if Whittlesey takes Mbwun home with him?

3. What material do Margo and Smithback learn Whittlesey used to pack is crates?

4. What does Smithback see in the room he and D'Agosta's group enters in Chapter 60?

5. What amusing program does the computer programmer show the police officer guarding the computer room in Chapter 42?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Coffey instruct Bailey to take command of D'Agosta's group in Chapter 49?

2. What epiphany does Margo have in Chapter 37 that makes her decide to run the indigenous plants from the Whittlesey crates packing material through the extrapolator program?

3. Who remains stuck inside the Hall of the Heavens with D'Agosta?

4. What do Margo, Smithback, and Moriarty learn about the Whittlesey Expedition by reading the accession database in Chapter 28?

5. What does Smithback learn about the cargo shipped from the Amazon by Whittlesey before his disappearance in Chapter 27? Why is this significant?

6. Why does Dr. Frock want to see the crates from the Whittlesey Expedition again?

7. Why does Dr. Frock attempt to make all the party guests leave the museum in Chapter 43? Is he successful?

8. What is found inside the Superstition Exhibition that begins the panic? Who finds it?

9. What happens to the lights in the museum? What other damage does this cause?

10. What does the extrapolator program say about the DNA taken from the claw that was found inside the chest of one of the museum killer's victims?

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