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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. What is Pendergast searching for in the basement level of the museum in Chapter 46?

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

3. Who is Spencer Coffey?

4. In Chapter 51, D'Agosta finds what impediment between him and escape from the creature?

5. What evidence does Pendergast present that the killer is eating the hypothalamus gland of his victims?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Dr. Frock want to see the crates from the Whittlesey Expedition again?

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

4. Who is Montague and what happened to him?

5. Who remains stuck inside the Hall of the Heavens with D'Agosta?

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

7. What does Smithback learn about the cargo shipped from the Amazon by Whittlesey before his disappearance in Chapter 27? Why is this significant?

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

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?

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

Discuss one of the following themes in detail:

1) Survival Instinct

2) Ambition

3) Responsibility

4) Scientific Theory

5) Genetic Mutation

Essay Topic 3

Pick one of the following characters and discuss what motivates their actions, thoughts, and emotions:

1) Margo Green

2) William Smithback Jr.

3) Vincent D'Agosta

4) Gregory Kawakita

5) Lavinia Rickman

6) Dr. Frock

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