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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, pages 219-258.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Amanda, John Paul, and their neighbor find out about the attempted theft of the baboon at the zoo?
(a) The radio.
(b) The police.
(c) The television
(d) The newspaper.

2. What did Marx previously conclude about Christianity, prior to his employment by the Zillers?
(a) The religion is too timid.
(b) The religion understands the world.
(c) The religion is dying.
(d) People have abandoned the religion to the zealots.

3. What is cited as evidence of genetic memory?
(a) The birds flying south for the winter.
(b) The monarch butterflies return to the same trees.
(c) The earthworms coming up to the surface after a rain.
(d) The drumbeats the compel dancing.

4. According to Marx, whose body is in the pantry when he returns home to the Zillers from vacation?
(a) Plucky Purcell.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Father Gustadt.

5. Why is Plucky able to easily leave the Vatican with the disguised Corpse?
(a) He uses a hidden passageway from the catacombs.
(b) He bribes everyone he finds.
(c) He knocks anyone who opposes his exit unconscious.
(d) No one wants to tangle with a man from the Society of the Felicitator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of vegetation is common to the area in which John Paul and Amanda settle, much to their delight?

2. Even though Marx finds it hard to take John Paul seriously, what does the scientist admit about the magician?

3. Why did Marx marry his friend's pregnant lover?

4. What does Plucky Purcell find in the catacombs of the Vatican?

5. Which of John Paul and Amanda's friends also befriended Marx Marvelous, leading the man to seek out the couple?

(see the answer key)

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