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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. In Chapter 50, what does Pendergast tell Dr. Frock the killer looks like?
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. What is Pendergast searching for in the basement level of the museum in Chapter 46?
4. What damage does the gun fire in the computer room do that affects the entire museum?
5. What is Cerro Gordo?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the creature comes into Dr. Wright's office in Chapter 56?
2. How do Margo and Pendergast lure the creature to them a second time? What is Margo's role in this?
3. What happens to the lights in the museum? What other damage does this cause?
4. Who directs D'Agosta's party out of the Hall of the Heavens? Which members of the group refuse to go?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. What is the security set up in the museum? Why is it designed that way?
8. What does Smithback learn about the cargo shipped from the Amazon by Whittlesey before his disappearance in Chapter 27? Why is this significant?
9. Why does Coffey instruct Bailey to take command of D'Agosta's group in Chapter 49?
10. What is Wright's major concern as he waits for rescue in his fourth floor office? What does this say about his character?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss two of the following. Include in your discussion how the two elements work together to build a strong plot:
1) Setting
2) Character
3) Point of view
4) Language
5) Structure
Essay Topic 3
How does Smithback end up in the subbasement with D'Agosta and the mayor of New York? Why does Coffey attempt to remove D'Agosta from his role as leader of this rogue group? Why is he not successful? Where does D'Agosta intend to take his group? What keeps them from teaming up with Pendergast? What is following them? How do they know which way to go? What hampers their progress? For what reason? What room do they find themselves in after toward the end of their adventure? What is hanging in this room? What do they later learn is significant about this room? How are they rescued? What do they learn of that room after everything is over?
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