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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is blastomycosis?
(a) A fungal infection.
(b) A rare cancer.
(c) A stage in the growth of a zygote.
(d) An explosion of broken glass.

2. What business with Mephisto does Pendergast tell the squatters he has?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Mbwun.
(c) Money laundering.
(d) Wrinklers.

3. What does the frieze in Linnaeus Hall represent?
(a) The world's extinct species.
(b) God's creation of the world and mankind.
(c) Man's inhumanity to man.
(d) Evolution.

4. What is a Stumpiniceps troglodytes?
(a) A tree-dwelling serpent from the Triassic period.
(b) A rodent, much like a mouse, from the Carboniferous period.
(c) A small, odoriferous reptile of the Cretaceous period.
(d) An oceanic bottom-feeder of the Carboniferous period.

5. What does the trio find in the cubby where the second headless body was found?
(a) A cryptic note.
(b) A head.
(c) A rat's nest.
(d) An old coin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Smithback and Margo have drinks after he runs into her while she is jogging?

2. How many people are in Linnaeus Hall for the presentation of the evidence gleaned from the Bitterman autopsy?

3. What story won Smithback great accolades?

4. To what type of philosophy is the following phrase attributed? "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

5. What confidential piece of information does Smithback reveal to Margo that he knows about the two bodies from the river?

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