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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cells is the Museum of Natural History divided into by security gates?

2. How does Moriarty recover the information on the removal of Whittlesey's journal?

3. Why does Frock think Dr. Wright wants to go on with the Superstition party despite the murders?

4. Where did the Whittlesey expedition take place?

5. For what did Pendergast have Dr. Frock search the accession database?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Margo Green? Why does the author focus on this character at the beginning of the novel? What does Margo do at the museum? What is her dissertation on? How does this dissertation relate to the events that take place in the novel? How does Margo stumble upon the truth about the killer in the museum? Does Margo know the entire truth about the killer when the climax of the novel takes place? What is still left for Margo to learn? What difference could have been made had Margo learned this last bit of information about the killer?

Essay Topic 2

Margo finds herself trapped between loyalty to her family and her desire to finish her education in this novel. Discuss what event placed Margo in this position. Why is Margo reluctant to make a decision? Why does Margo feel she is needed at home? Why does she want to remain in New York? What impact on Margo's life will there be when she completes her dissertation? How would Margo's life change if she were to chose her family over her education? In the end, what decision does Margo make? Why? What decision would you have made in the same situation? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What are the Kothaga people? How are they related to the Mbwun figurine? What is Mbwun? Relate and discuss the story of the Mbwun. Why is the woman in the Amazon afraid of the Mbwun? How does Margo make a connection between this woman and the packing materials? What are the packing materials? How did they get into the cargo? Why does Margo test the packing materials? What does she find in them? What is it about these materials that drew the creature to the Whittlesey crate for so long? What would have happened if the crate had not been placed in the secure area?

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