"The Great and Secret Show" Part Two Quiz

Answer: Kissoon was a murderer

Kissoon had originally told Tesla that he was the last surviving member of the Shoal. That was a lie; Mary Muralles was a member too and she was alive. Kissoon also told Tesla that all of the other Shoal members had been murdered. In truth, Kissoon himself murdered them all. He wanted Tesla's body to return to the real world. He was an agent for the dreadful Iad Uroboros.

Answer: Kissoon could sense her in a stronger capacity

Kissoon could summon Tesla to him even before she got the Nuncio. Raul placed it on her stomach, where she'd been shot. So when Kissoon drew her to his Loop, the pull she felt was mainly in her stomach. When Kissoon snatched Raul away, he felt the pull in his arm, where he'd accidentally spilled some of the Nuncio on himself. Along with that, Tesla's gunshot wound did not kill her because of the Nuncio. Later, Tesla experienced heightened senses as well.

Answer: He was terrified

At Vance's party, The Jaff collected enough of his terata over the hours and eventually knew it was time, after so many years, to use the Art. He placed his hand in a wall and the partygoers witnessed the very walls around them begin to distort. However, The Jaff grew very afraid of the power he controlled.

He couldn't free his hands and even went as far as to try and bite them off to free himself. Grillo witnessed that The Jaff seemed filled with regret.

Answer: He had mysteries to solve on his own

Before the group ventured into the caves, Tesla spoke to Harry D'Amour, someone with experience in supernatural happenings. He warned her that he had the feeling something very bad was coming. His intuition was correct, as the Iad Uroboros were attempting to enter the Cosm, or regular world. D'Amour wished he could join the group, but in Manhattan, he reported that there had been 150 double-suicides in the past eight hours. Tesla knew it was lovers awakening from being at the Ephemeris and seeing the monstrous Iad Uroboros approaching.

Answer: The Jaff; Tesla herself

D'Amour's friend Norma said "there's a savior out there" in California, and that it could be a man or a woman or not even human. Norma claimed the savior could shift the balance. Tesla assumed it was The Jaff since he had the Nunciate and had opened the schism into Quiddity.

However, she later realized it was she herself; she was able to use her mind to save the entire world from the Iad Uroboros.

Answer: They were like mountains and fleas

The Jaff-who Tesla began calling by his regular human name, Jaffe-could still see through his son Tommy-Ray's eyes. He looked above him at the skies and just saw unending darkness. Tesla asked him to keep looking. Jaffe couldn't figure out exactly what the Iad Uroboros were, saying he saw large, mountainous beasts that also seemed to be crawling with fleas.

He couldn't figure out if they were both large and small. Regardless, the Iad Uroboros represented death and were trying to make their way into the real world, the Cosm.

In Quiddity, Howie met a man who'd spotted them. When asked what they looked like, he said, "Evil beyond words so I won't even try."

Answer: False

It was actually Jo-Beth who was filled with rage. And it was because of Tommy-Ray, who was petrified and kept clutching his twin close to him. She grew angry, hit him, and tried to get away. The waters in which she swam reflected the swimmers' feelings, so she felt herself becoming something angry. Spikes grew all over her body, reflecting her rage. Soon the waters affected Howie too, completely mutating their bodies. Days later, the couple eventually returned to normal.

Answer: Four

Tesla felt like they needed to find The Jaff to help save the Cosm. So Hotchkiss instructed Tesla, Grillo, and William Witt on how to delve into the depths of the shattered ground in Palomo Grove. They wore several layers of clothing and brought fake torches.

Unfortunately, a large wave took hold of them and they were momentarily separated. When Tesla reunited with Grillo and Hotchkiss, she spotted Witt's body floating in the remaining water. They found the Jaff and returned to the surface with his help. Witt's remains stayed below, and with the Jaff joining them, four made it back.

Answer: Evolution and the Cosm/Meta-Cosm

The Jaff gave Tesla only five minutes to decipher what his cross-like symbol meant. Grillo, who was claustrophobic, was having a panic attack and couldn't help; Hotchkiss was just confused by it. Witt was dead. So she did it herself. Each ending to the symbol was a circle.

The north and south lines represented evolution. The east and west lines represented the Cosm and the Meta-Cosm. At first Tesla thought the man in the middle of it all was merely the representation of a man, but it was actually representing Quiddity.

She figured it out by seeing Witt floating in the water, hands spread, much like the man in the symbol.

Answer: Trinity

Tesla remembered that the first time she met Kissoon, he made a mistake. He told her that she'd be safe at Trinity. Right after that he seemed to regret his words. All anybody knew about the word was the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. So Hotchkiss went to the Mall and looked through piles of books at the bookstore. Eventually he found a picture of a mushroom cloud describing an attack on Trinity, New Mexico. Eventually Tesla deducted that Kissoon had been keeping an atomic bomb in his Loop.

Answer: Lunatics

Just the mere action of moving toward the schism created by the Jaff affected people. Tesla was able to keep the worst at bay, but Grillo found it impossible. He kept seeing innocents suffering, knowing there was nothing he could do. Howie, when near the darkness of the Iad, was reminded of the death and carnage he witnessed while working at a slaughterhouse. Tesla realized nobody could resist the Iad for long and would go insane, thus prompting her to think, "The Iad Uroboros would rule a planet of lunatics."

Answer: False

He did! First he called Tesla and warned her. But after Tesla saved them all and Jo-Beth and Howie escaped Quiddity, Harry D'Amour arrived. He showed up at Jo-Beth and Howie's hotel room. He wanted to hear everything that had happened to them. D'Amour also told Howie that because he was Fletcher's son, he had the chance to learn more because his spirit was in him.

Answer: Tesla

Because Raul had the Nunciate, Kissoon was able to draw him into his Loop and steal his body. It was because of this that he entered the world and continued his work as an agent for the Iad Uroboros. However, Jaffe killed Kissoon-in Raul's body. Tesla went back into the Loop, saw Kissoon's unoccupied body, and knew Raul's spirit was still there.

She allowed him to enter her body. Two minds then occupied one body.

Answer: He treated him kindly

Even while trying to help Tesla, Jaffe was distracted most of the time he was with her. He saw through Tommy-Ray's eyes. He saw people around him and felt his fear in the seas of Quiddity. Tesla thought he was almost possessed, the way he began to grin like Tommy-Ray. Jaffe reunited with his son, opening his arms to hold him, and then refused to go with Tesla.

The last she saw of them they were embracing. She couldn't tell if it was a mutual murder or a real hug.

Answer: Tesla Bombeck

Witt said he saw Quiddity in his dreams the night before he went down into the Grove's depths. To an experienced mind, that meant he was going to die that day. A person went to Quiddity three times in their lives: when they were born, the night they sleep next to their true love, and before they died. Hotchkiss, who didn't seem interested in living anymore, was killed by Kissoon's monsters called the Lix. Tesla brought another member of the Shoal, Mary Muralles, out of Kissoon's Loop with her.

Unfortunately, she was killed by the Lix as well. Tesla was willing to die but she did survive.