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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 48-83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Amanda and Ziller immediately feel about each other at first sight?
(a) Repulsion.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Confusion.

2. What type of vegetation is common to the area in which John Paul and Amanda settle, much to their delight?
(a) Mangos.
(b) Apples.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Sunflowers.

3. Aside from his renowned sculptures, for what else did Zimmer have a stellar reputation?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Drumming.
(c) Inducing hallucinations.
(d) Singing.

4. Why did Amanda try to orchestrate a mass-smuggling of butterfly larva into the U.S.?
(a) She was going to sell them as drugs.
(b) She was afraid that they would become extinct.
(c) She was hoping to find the perfect butterfly wings.
(d) She was dissatisfied with the lack of butterfly species in the country.

5. What is Nearly Normal Jimmy's explanation for why thunderstorms can affect human beings so strongly?
(a) The primal site of the rain falling.
(b) The loud claps of thunder.
(c) Thunderstorms have negatively charged particles.
(d) Thunderstorms provide a reminder that nature is stronger than human beings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Ziller play as Amanda sings during their first meeting?

2. How does Plucky feel about Amanda?

3. Who is the circus manager and ringmaster of the Indo Tibetan Circus and Giant Panda Gypsy Blues Band?

4. What did Amanda once hide inside a hollow tree in order to trick woodpeckers into pecking the tree?

5. In what month did the Indo-Tibetan circus disband?

(see the answer key)

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