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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 evidence does Pendergast present that the killer is eating the hypothalamus gland of his victims?
(a) Bite marks and oral blood.
(b) Salt and pepper on the other parts of the brain.
(c) Bite marks and saliva.
(d) The missing gland.

2. Why does the guard in the computer room fire his weapon in Chapter 45?
(a) The computer tech wants to see how to fire a gun.
(b) Fear.
(c) He wants to shut down the electricity to stop the panic downstairs.
(d) He sees the creature.

3. How did the Whittlesey Expedition get to the upper reaches of the Xingu as described in Whittlesey's journal?
(a) On foot.
(b) Helicopter.
(c) Jeep.
(d) By boat.

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

5. Who is Spencer Coffey?
(a) The CIA agent in charge.
(b) The new director of the museum.
(c) The new FBI agent in charge.
(d) The New York Police Lieutenant in charge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Kothoga do to receive the gift of the Mbwun from the devil?

2. What is unusual about Moriarty's watch?

3. From what city were the Whittlesey crates shipped from in 1988?

4. In Chapter 54, where do Margo, Dr. Frock, and Pendergast hope to trap the creature?

5. What does the commander of the SWAT team tell Coffey is his priority once inside the museum?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is Dr. Frock's theory on the killer in the museum as he explains it to Pendergast in Chapter 29?

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

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

7. 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?

8. How do D'Agosta and Smithback get their group out of the rising flood waters in the subbasement tunnels? What do they find on the otherside?

9. Who directs D'Agosta's party out of the Hall of the Heavens? Which members of the group refuse to go?

10. 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?

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