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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the powder that the mystery man in Chapter 8 mixes with water?
(a) Light jade.
(b) Vermilion.
(c) Sulfur yellow.
(d) Cyan.

2. To what does D'Agosta compare the Chief's office?
(a) The Oval Office.
(b) A gaudy harem den.
(c) A public secretary's office.
(d) A suburban steakhouse trying to go upscale.

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

4. What does Smithback's informant say his name is?
(a) Mephisto.
(b) Trail Blazer.
(c) Goose.
(d) Tail Gunner.

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

6. What is the name of the curator for the New York Museum of Natural History?
(a) Bill Smithback.
(b) Simon Brambell.
(c) Margo Green.
(d) Olivia Meriam.

7. Smithback's informant insists that Smtihback must meet whom?
(a) Mephisto.
(b) Arnold Murray.
(c) Tail Gunner.
(d) Elvis.

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

9. Why does Margo visit the 27th Precinct House in Chapter 19?
(a) To report her purse stolen.
(b) For target practice.
(c) To find D'Agosta.
(d) To speak with the Chief.

10. What do the police believe caused the marks found on Pamela's skeleton?
(a) A saw.
(b) Disease.
(c) Teeth.
(d) A knife.

11. What is the Devil's Attic?
(a) The lowest level of the city.
(b) The area occupied only by murderers.
(c) The highest level of the tunnels.
(d) The place where the tunnel inhabitants bury their dead.

12. What does Pendergast say is the largest inhabited region on earth that remains unmapped?
(a) Outer Mongolia.
(b) Underground New York.
(c) Antipodes.
(d) Milwaukee.

13. What show does Brambell pass through to exit the Museum?
(a) The Forensic Anthropology exhibit.
(b) The Hall of Africa.
(c) The Garden of Eden.
(d) The Monsters of the Jurassic.

14. What is the name of the librarian at the New York Historical Society?
(a) Horlocker.
(b) Willson.
(c) Cushing.
(d) Padelsky.

15. Which two characters in Chapter 12 detest each other?
(a) Frock and Margo.
(b) Margo and Brambell.
(c) All of the answers are incorrect.
(d) Brambell and Frock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stench does D'Agosta try to dilute with the plume of smoke?

2. What is another name given to the homeless population in the tunnels?

3. What kind of tests were run on the two skeletons found in the river?

4. What is the name of the waterway in which Snow goes on his first dive?

5. What is the Pitti Palace?

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