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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why will Ippolito not allow the law enforcement officers into the Secure Area of the museum in Chapter 14?
(a) He forgot the passcode.
(b) He is afraid of repercussions.
(c) He wants them to get a warrant.
(d) He forgot the key.

2. 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) An area where the museum director keeps his research.
(d) A room where extremely important or delicate artifacts are kept.

3. What does Mbwun mean?
(a) Devil's child.
(b) He Who Runs on Two.
(c) He Who Walks on all Fours.
(d) Shadow man.

4. Who is Beauregard?
(a) A security guard at the museum guarding the Superstition Exhibit.
(b) A relative of Dr. Cuthbert working in the Superstition Exhibit.
(c) A cop assigned to guard the Superstition Exhibit.
(d) A graduate student at the museum working in the Superstition Exhibit.

5. What meal does D'Agosta wish he did not have before attending the autopsy of the two children found dead in the museum?
(a) Double hamburgers.
(b) Double bacon cheeseburgers.
(c) Double cheeseburgers.
(d) Double chili cheeseburgers.

6. What is a stevedore?
(a) Someone who takes luggage into guest cabins on a ship.
(b) Someone who navigates on a cruise ship.
(c) Someone who serves food on a ship.
(d) Someone who loads ships.

7. Why does Ippolito believe the killer would not have gone away from the crime scene toward the corridor leading to the secure area?
(a) The corridor can only be accessed by a security card.
(b) The corridor only goes into the basement.
(c) The corridor is blocked by flood debris.
(d) The corridor ends in a deadend.

8. Where were the red-haired child and his older brother, Billy, supposed to meet their parents after visiting the Museum of Natural History?
(a) At home.
(b) The gift shop.
(c) At grandmother's.
(d) The front steps.

9. What is significant about the Mbwun figure?
(a) It contains the secret of the Kothoga.
(b) It is made of pure gold.
(c) It contains the secrets of the jungle.
(d) It represents a figure important to Kothoga mythology.

10. Who does Pendergast tell the independent lab to bill for further testing on the DNA from the claw in Chapter 23?
(a) The New York City Police Department.
(b) The Museum of Natural History.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The CIA.

11. Who is George Moriarty?
(a) Assistant curator to Dr. Frock.
(b) A graduate student in architecture.
(c) A reporter.
(d) Assitant curator to Dr. Cuthbert.

12. Under what discipline does Gregory Kawakita work in the Anthropology Department?
(a) Evolutionary mutations.
(b) Ancient tribes of South America.
(c) Botany.
(d) Evolutionary biology.

13. What do scientists think the Mbwun figure was used for by the Kothoga Indians?
(a) Satanic worship.
(b) Revenge killings.
(c) Religious ceremony.
(d) Vengence killings.

14. What happens to Ven at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) He is bullied by a group of disgruntled workers.
(b) He is caught trying to steal.
(c) He is attacked by something, an animal perhaps.
(d) He sneaks aboard a ship bound for America.

15. What does Whittlesey see on the dead body on the trial before him that tells him it is human?
(a) A khaki shirt.
(b) A gun.
(c) A pair of jeans.
(d) A pair of leather boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frock suggest the members of the Whittlesey Expedition were killed?

2. What is Pendergast's theory as to how the killer is murdering his victims?

3. Who is Vincent D'Agosta?

4. Whose body was supposedly found mutilated in the museum, thus starting the rumor of the museum beast as related to Margo in Chapter 15?

5. What region of the brain is missing from the security guard autopsied in Chapter 23?

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