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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 starts the panic inside the Superstition Exhibition in Chapter 44?
(a) Someone spooks at the display of the Mbwun figurine.
(b) A guest notices the dead body.
(c) A dead body falls from the ceiling.
(d) Someone overhears D'Agosta reporting a dead body on his radio.

2. How many people are expected for the Superstition Exhibition's opening night party?
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Three thousand.

3. What is the name of the museum curator who began the curating of the Whittlesey crates in 1988?
(a) Hugo Montague.
(b) Gregory Kawakita.
(c) Mike Thompson.
(d) Edward Maxwell.

4. What does Cuthbert say to the creature in Chapter 56?
(a) 'I can help you.'
(b) 'Go away.'
(c) 'Don't hurt me.'
(d) 'You can't kill me.'

5. From what city were the Whittlesey crates shipped from in 1988?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) London, England.
(c) Belem, Brazil.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 63, what is Kawakita making a living selling on the streets of New York?

2. In Chapter 62, who does Pendergast suggest was the creature's first victim in the museum?

3. What method did Pendergast's wife once use to kill a buffalo charging she and her husband while hunting?

4. To whom does Pendergast give credit for killing the creature in Chapter 61?

5. What weapon does Dr.Wright produce from an office drawer in Chapter 51?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does FBI Agent Coffey make to the murder investigation and the security plan for the Superstition Exhibition's opening night party?

2. For what reason does Dr. Frock and Margo believe the creature kills?

3. 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?

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

5. What does Margo find in the crates? What does she take?

6. What does Smithback do in the subbasement in Chapter 54 that turns him into something like a hero?

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

8. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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