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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 the first problem with Coffey's decision to close all but one of the four gates around the Great Rotunda?
(a) Fire codes restrict having only one entrance and exit.
(b) Too many people will overrun the small area too quickly.
(c) The security gates will block access to restrooms.
(d) The killer will be trapped in the area with the party goers.

2. How many security doors closed when the computer system malfunctioned?
(a) Two out of five sections.
(b) Three out of five sections.
(c) Only the one on the front entrance.
(d) All of them.

3. What happened to the crew of the Strella de Venezuela?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They all died of dysentery.
(c) They were killed the same way as the victims of the museum murders.
(d) They mutinied.

4. What method did Pendergast's wife once use to kill a buffalo charging she and her husband while hunting?
(a) Kill shot to the head.
(b) Stop forward locomotion.
(c) Kill line of sight.
(d) Kill shot to the heart.

5. According to Whittlesey's journal, what was the old native woman upset about?
(a) Whittlesey stole the last of her food.
(b) Whittlesey took the devil, Mbwun, in his crate.
(c) Whittlesey killed her husband.
(d) Whittlesey ruined the flowerbeds outside her hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the guard in the computer room fire his weapon in Chapter 45?

2. What happened to the shot that Pendergast got off on the killer in Chapter 46?

3. What does Rickman tell Smithback about discussions with museum employees on museum grounds?

4. What does D'Agosta tell Coffey is his reason for leaving the Hall of the Heavens in Chapter 49?

5. What starts the panic inside the Superstition Exhibition in Chapter 44?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Pendergast's plan to lead D'Agosta and his group to safety? What does this event say about the possibility of rescue for this group?

2. Why did Pendergast's initial shots against the creature fail to kill it?

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

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

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

6. Where do Margo and Dr. Frock go in Chapter 45? For what reason?

7. Where does Margo instruct Pendergast to shoot the creature? For what reason?

8. How do Margo and Pendergast lure the creature to them a second time? What is Margo's role in this?

9. Who is Montague and what happened to him?

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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