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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapon does Pendergast prepare before they set the charges in the Bottleneck?
(a) .22 calibur gun.
(b) Pipe bomb.
(c) Flamethrower.
(d) Grenade launcher.

2. Who is the head of the NYPD's Tactical Response Unit?
(a) Milner.
(b) Horlocker.
(c) Masters.
(d) Hausmann.

3. Who is Jennifer Lake?
(a) Margo's lab assistant.
(b) D'Agosta's sister.
(c) The museum curator.
(d) The museum collection librarian.

4. What is the closest substitute for the plant hormones that the Mbwun craves?
(a) Crack cocaine.
(b) The thyroid.
(c) The hypothalamus.
(d) Black tar heroin.

5. What is the purpose of the moles' banging on the pipes?
(a) Aggravation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Communication.
(d) Aggression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Smithback run into after witnessing the horrible destruction of a group of policemen in the tunnels?

2. What does Billy Trumbull do to escape his pursuers?

3. What does Margo find growing on the surface of the Central Park Reservoir?

4. During what event did the creatures abstain from killing?

5. What disturbs Margo about the events taking place in the gun locker with Pendergast, Mephisto, and D'Agosta?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margo plan to figure out what Greg had been doing in his warehouse laboratory?

2. Do you think Waxie was too hasty in naming Jeffery as the serial killer? What reason might Waxie have for such a hasty conclusion?

3. What is a seemingly positive side effect of the reovirus infection? What might this mean to future testing?

4. What do you think the symbols Pendergast discovered, which translate to a description of a Japanese tea room, mean to the creatures?

5. One of the subway passengers chooses suicide over being at the mercy of his attackers. What does this indicate to you about the attackers?

6. Why does Pendergast make a second trip into the tunnels?

7. How does Pendergast use his shocking albinism to "blend in" with the outcasts of society in the tunnels? What other methods does he employ, and how is he successful?

8. What does the Navy SEALs involvement tell you about the seriousness of the matter?

9. Why do you think the creatures abduct the group determined to destroy them instead of killing them like they have everyone else?

10. What would be the far-reaching effects of drowning the Wrinklers in the manner mentioned in Chapter 40?

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