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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, He Who Walks On All Fours: Chapters 42-48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What section of the Museum of Natural History does Smithback call a strange graveyard?
(a) The storage area of the Archeology Department.
(b) The storage area of the Physical Anthropology Laboratory.
(c) The Pachyderm Hall.
(d) The Hall of Crustacean Dinosaurs.

2. What does Margo find hidden in the lid of one of Whittlesey's crates in Chapter 30?
(a) A letter.
(b) A decorated disc.
(c) A journal.
(d) A shaman's rattle.

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 security guard.
(b) A young museum visitor.
(c) A past director of the museum.
(d) A missing curator, Montague.

4. What region of the brain is missing from the security guard autopsied in Chapter 23?
(a) Thalamoid region.
(b) Brain stem.
(c) Pituitary gland.
(d) Right hemisphere.

5. How long did it take the Whittlesey crates to get from the Amazon to the Museum?
(a) Two and a half years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three years.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Whittlesey write a letter before sending his crates away?

2. How is Ippolito killed in Chapter 48?

3. Why does the red-haired kid follow his brother, Billy, into a dark, cavernous room?

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

5. What is Cerro Gordo?

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