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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Whittlesey Expedition get to the upper reaches of the Xingu as described in Whittlesey's journal?
(a) By boat.
(b) Jeep.
(c) On foot.
(d) Helicopter.

2. For what did Pendergast have Dr. Frock search the accession database?
(a) Artifacts the killer might be interested in.
(b) Artifacts they might use against the killer.
(c) Artifacts similar to the claw used in the murders.
(d) More crates related to the Whittlesey expedition.

3. How does Smithback manage to get into the library archives?
(a) He pretends to be a reporter from Times.
(b) He pretends to be a librarian from the science library.
(c) He gets a pass from Dr. Wright.
(d) He flirts with the young, pretty librarian.

4. According to Whittlesey's journal, why did Maxwell and the others decide to return to New York?
(a) They miss their families.
(b) They are sick and frightened.
(c) They do not think there is anything else to find.
(d) They want to take their finds home to study them.

5. What happened to the crew of the Strella de Venezuela?
(a) They mutinied.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They were killed the same way as the victims of the museum murders.
(d) They all died of dysentery.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 57, what stops the forward motion of the group led by D'Agosta?

2. In Chapter 50, what does Pendergast tell Dr. Frock the killer looks like?

3. Who does Dr. Frock turn to to ask for help in clearing out the party in Chapter 43?

4. What does Cuthbert say to the creature in Chapter 56?

5. What amusing program does the computer programmer show the police officer guarding the computer room in Chapter 42?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the extrapolator program say about the DNA taken from the claw that was found inside the chest of one of the museum killer's victims?

2. What contract does Smithback show off four weeks after the creature is killed? With whom does Smithback promise to share any proceeds from the contract?

3. Who is Montague and what happened to him?

4. What epiphany does Margo have in Chapter 37 that makes her decide to run the indigenous plants from the Whittlesey crates packing material through the extrapolator program?

5. What is found inside the Superstition Exhibition that begins the panic? Who finds it?

6. Where do Margo and Dr. Frock go in Chapter 45? For what reason?

7. What happens when the creature comes into Dr. Wright's office in Chapter 56?

8. What has George Kawakita done with the information about the indigenous plant packed with Whittlesey's artifacts? What is Kawakita's theory about the creature who terrorized the museum?

9. What is Dr. Frock's theory on the killer in the museum as he explains it to Pendergast in Chapter 29?

10. How do Margo and Pendergast lure the creature to them a second time? What is Margo's role in this?

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