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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the authors discuss the growing odd behavior of visitors to the museum and the employees of the museum in Chapter 24?
(a) To explain why the killer chose the museum.
(b) To fill pages.
(c) To distract from the main plot.
(d) To show the growing fear and paranoia involved in the murder investigation.

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

3. Who is Pendergast?
(a) A CIA agent.
(b) An agent with Homeland Security.
(c) A New York City cop.
(d) An FBI agent.

4. What piece of jewelry does Whittlesey consider his talisman?
(a) A gold encassed bullet.
(b) A gold wedding band.
(c) A woman's locket.
(d) A gold and a silver arrow.

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

6. What does Margo see in the Superstition Exhibition that makes her think Dr. Frock is right about it being purely for entertainment?
(a) Recorded spooky sounds.
(b) Strobe lights.
(c) Items for sale.
(d) Special lighting.

7. Who joins Margo in the herbarium in Chapter 15, helping her distract the curator so that she might collect what she needs?
(a) Dr. Frock.
(b) Gregory Kawakita.
(c) FBI Agent Pendergast.
(d) William Smithback Jr.

8. Who is Callisto?
(a) A Roman mythical woman who was suddenly transformed into a monster.
(b) A Roman goddess.
(c) A Greek goddess.
(d) A Greek mythical woman who was suddenly transformed into a wild creature.

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

10. How does Frock suggest the members of the Whittlesey Expedition were killed?
(a) Some by hostile guides and others in a car crash.
(b) All in a plane crash.
(c) All by hostile natives.
(d) Some by hostile natives and others in a plane crash.

11. Why does Margo accompany Dr. Frock into the basement in Chapter 17?
(a) To visit with Dr. Cuthbert.
(b) To visit with D'Agosta.
(c) To visit with Mrs. Rickman.
(d) To visit with Pendergast.

12. What does the medical examiner find inside the chest of one of the young victims of the museum murders?
(a) A claw.
(b) A knife.
(c) A museum artifact.
(d) A fingernail.

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

14. What does Dr. Frock tell Margo the Ki tribe once used to treat headaches in Chapter 6?
(a) Tree bark.
(b) Poppy seeds.
(c) Aloe.
(d) Poison ivy.

15. What is Pendergast's theory as to how the killer is murdering his victims?
(a) With powerful claws containing three points.
(b) With a weapon that resembles a claw.
(c) With a knife made of animal claws.
(d) With a man-made claw or artifact.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dr. Cuthbert move the Whittlesey crates into the Secure Area?

2. Why will Ippolito not allow the law enforcement officers into the Secure Area of the museum in Chapter 14?

3. In what way does Pendergast suggest Dr. Wright is obstructing the murder investigation?

4. What is a dissertation?

5. Where does the owner of The Blarney Stone Tavern claim he got the bones that he has nailed to the walls of his bar?

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