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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 damage does the gun fire in the computer room do that affects the entire museum?

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

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

4. What does Smithback see in the room he and D'Agosta's group enters in Chapter 60?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Smithback do in the subbasement in Chapter 54 that turns him into something like a hero?

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

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. Who is Montague and what happened to him?

5. Why did Pendergast's initial shots against the creature fail to kill it?

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

7. What is the security set up in the museum? Why is it designed that way?

8. What happens when the creature comes into Dr. Wright's office in Chapter 56?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Callisto Effect. What is the Callisto Effect? Who developed it? What evidence is there to support such a theory? Why do other scientists deny the existence of the Callisto Effect? What evidence is there against the theory? How does the creature who was killing people in the Museum of Natural History appear to prove the Callisto Effect? How does it disprove the theory?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss scientific expeditions. What are they? What is the purpose of an expedition? Who goes on these expeditions? Are they restricted just to scientists? What happens to the artifacts taken during these expeditions? For what purpose are these artifacts taken? Should they be taken? Compare and contrast a real expedition with the Whittlesey expedition discussed in this novel. For example, compare the Whittlesey expedition with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Discuss the details of each, what the explorers hoped to find, and what the end result was. What did each of these expeditions do for civilization?

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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