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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 are pheromonals?
(a) Scent people excrete while in a state of excitement.
(b) A fancy word for perfume.
(c) Hormones that regulate body function.
(d) Urine animals lay down to mark their territory.

2. What does Rickman tell Smithback about discussions with museum employees on museum grounds?
(a) Smithback is not to talk to any employees about museum matters without prior written authorization.
(b) Smithback is encouraged to speak to anyone and everyone he thinks will be helpful.
(c) Smithback is to leave museum property and not speak to anyone involved with the museum.
(d) Smithback is encouraged to talk only to employees involved in the Superstition Exhibit.

3. What does Rickman tell Smithback about notes taken during interviews in Chapter 35?
(a) Smithback is forbidden to tape record interviews by can take handwritten notes.
(b) Smithback is instructed to take detailed notes, but to have them approved by Rickman.
(c) Smithback is encouraged to hire a stenographer to take accurate notes of interviews.
(d) Smithback is forbidden to take notes during interviews.

4. Where did the Whittlesey expedition take place?
(a) Guaviare plain.
(b) Kalahari Desert.
(c) Caqueta region.
(d) Upper Xingu River System.

5. What is Cerro Gordo?
(a) The tepui that was the ultimate destination of the Whittlesey Expedition.
(b) The name of Whittlesey's guide on his expedition.
(c) The tribesmen who guided the Whittlesey Expedition into the forest of the Amazon.
(d) The name of an artifact found in the Amazon by the Whittlesey Expedition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 62, to what rank is it revealed that D'Agosta was promoted to?

2. What item of Dr. Whittlesey's was found in the creature's lair?

3. For what reason does Dr. Wright suggest the killer will not go after he, Cuthbert, and Rickman in his fourth floor office?

4. Who has the honor of cutting the ribbon on the Superstition Exhibition in Chapter 44?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. Who is Montague and what happened to him?

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

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

9. What does Rickman want Smithback to sign in Chapter 35? Why does he agree to sign?

10. 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?

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