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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. What does Smithback see in Rickman's desk drawer that prompts him to sign the provisions?
(a) A gun.
(b) A dismissal contract.
(c) Whittlesey's journal.
(d) An illegally obtained artifact.

2. Who has the Whittlesey journal?
(a) Cuthbert.
(b) Frock.
(c) Rickman.
(d) Wright.

3. In what city were the Whittlesey crates delayed en route to New York?
(a) Miami.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Brooklyn.

4. Who is Spencer Coffey?
(a) The New York Police Lieutenant in charge.
(b) The new director of the museum.
(c) The new FBI agent in charge.
(d) The CIA agent in charge.

5. What does Maxwell find on September 15 that Whittlesey remarks about in his journal?
(a) Indigenous plant with pretty flowers.
(b) Indigenous plants with modern morphology.
(c) Indigenous plants with ancient morphology.
(d) Indigenous plants with unique self defense mechanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the shot that Pendergast got off on the killer in Chapter 46?

2. In Chapter 62, to what rank is it revealed that D'Agosta was promoted to?

3. Why can Coffey's team not stop the descent of the security door in Chapter 46?

4. How does Moriarty recover the information on the removal of Whittlesey's journal?

5. What is Pendergast searching for in the basement level of the museum in Chapter 46?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Margo instruct Pendergast to shoot the creature? For what reason?

2. 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?

3. Who directs D'Agosta's party out of the Hall of the Heavens? Which members of the group refuse to go?

4. What happens to the lights in the museum? What other damage does this cause?

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

6. What is the security set up in the museum? Why is it designed that way?

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

8. What does Margo find in the crates? What does she take?

9. Why did Pendergast's initial shots against the creature fail to kill it?

10. What is Wright's major concern as he waits for rescue in his fourth floor office? What does this say about his character?

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