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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 D'Agosta want to do as the guests arrive that Coffey overrules in Chapter 42?
(a) Search for poisoned appetizers.
(b) Search for the killer.
(c) Search for weapons.
(d) Search for dead bodies.

2. Where do Margo and Dr. Frock hide from the creature in Chapter 47?
(a) Inside the secure area.
(b) Behind a locked door.
(c) In a stairwell.
(d) With Pendergast in a store room.

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

4. What material do Margo and Smithback learn Whittlesey used to pack is crates?
(a) Kothoga healing herbs.
(b) Flowers sold by street vendors.
(c) Indigenous plants.
(d) Styrofoam peanuts.

5. What is unusual about Moriarty's watch?
(a) It is a gift from the mayor of New York.
(b) It is a pocket watch.
(c) It is a Rolex.
(d) It is a sundial.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Coffey speak to in chapter 52 in an effort to force D'Agosta to move everyone back into the Hall of the Heavens?

3. According to Whittlesey's journal, what was the old native woman upset about?

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

5. What does Maxwell find on September 15 that Whittlesey remarks about in his journal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the creature comes into Dr. Wright's office in Chapter 56?

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

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

4. What is Wright's major concern as he waits for rescue in his fourth floor office? What does this say about his character?

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

6. What has George Kawakita done with the information about the indigenous plant packed with Whittlesey's artifacts? What is Kawakita's theory about the creature who terrorized the museum?

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

8. Why do Margo and Pendergast go into the secure area and take some of the packing material from Whittlesey's shipping crate in Chapter 52?

9. What contract does Smithback show off four weeks after the creature is killed? With whom does Smithback promise to share any proceeds from the contract?

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

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