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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Museum of Unnatural History: Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 15, who claimed to have seen the museum creature one morning as it slunk around a corner in the basement?
(a) Mike Herron from the gift shop.
(b) Dr. Frock.
(c) Dr. Cuthbert.
(d) Carl Conover from the metal shop.

2. What strange scent does Ven smell in the warehouse?
(a) A spicy cologne.
(b) A flowery perfume.
(c) A goat-like smell.
(d) A dead mouse smell.

3. Whose body was supposedly found mutilated in the museum, thus starting the rumor of the museum beast as related to Margo in Chapter 15?
(a) A missing curator, Montague.
(b) A past director of the museum.
(c) A security guard.
(d) A young museum visitor.

4. What is the Secure Area?
(a) An area where money and expensive items from the gift shop are kept.
(b) An area where only security guards are allowed to congregate.
(c) A room where extremely important or delicate artifacts are kept.
(d) An area where the museum director keeps his research.

5. What happens to D'Agosta at the crime scene in Chapter 14 that has not happened to him in more than twenty years of police work?
(a) He faints at a crime scene.
(b) He steps in blood at a crime scene.
(c) He moves the body at a crime scene.
(d) He vomits at a crime scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Frock tell Margo the Ki tribe once used to treat headaches in Chapter 6?

2. To what literary work does Whittlesey compare the place where he expects to find the Kothoga people?

3. Who is George Moriarty?

4. What happened to the original Museum of Natural History in 1911?

5. What relative of Margo's died in the weeks before the opening of the main plot of the novel?

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