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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Superstition Exhibition: Chapters 33-41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pendergast show Dr. Wright that causes the doctor physical discomfort?
(a) A bill for his services.
(b) A tally of the money being lost to the museum during the investigation.
(c) Pictures of the mutilated young boys.
(d) Pictures of the latest crime scene.

2. Who is Jost Von Oster?
(a) Head of security.
(b) Head of exhibition arrangement.
(c) Head of the anthropological department.
(d) Head of the osteological preparation area.

3. Why does Margo call Greg Kawakita in Chapter 20?
(a) To ask help in classifying plants for the Superstition Exhibition.
(b) To ask to use his G.S.E. program.
(c) To ask to use his dissertation notes on the Kiribitu tribe.
(d) To ask help in finding out more information on the Whittlesey Expedition.

4. Where was the original Museum of Natural History built?
(a) On an old river bed.
(b) On an artesian swamp that could not be properly drained.
(c) On an old lake bed.
(d) On a gaseous swamp that still released toxic gas into the subbasement.

5. How does Moriarty recover the information on the removal of Whittlesey's journal?
(a) By accessing the backup tapes on the computer system.
(b) By accessing the accession database.
(c) By tracing the initials on the original record.
(d) By calling security.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do D'Agosta and Pendergast wait to see in the opening paragraphs of Chapter 16?

2. What is significant about the Mbwun figure?

3. What reasons does Pendergast give that the killer is human?

4. How did the Whittlesey Expedition get to the upper reaches of the Xingu as described in Whittlesey's journal?

5. Who has the Whittlesey journal?

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