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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) Attraction.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Repulsion.

2. What concerns Amanda about John Paul's quiet anxiety as they restore their new home?
(a) She is afraid he is still in love with his first wife.
(b) She is afraid he regrets being married to her.
(c) She is afraid that he will grow bored with being a husband and a father.
(d) She is afraid he regrets turning down the opportunity to go to Tibet.

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

4. What is celebrated at the banquet on Ziller's first night with the circus?
(a) His celebrated drumming techniques.
(b) His new love with Amanda.
(c) Mon Cul.
(d) Amanda's pregnancy.

5. What endangered animal do John Paul and Amanda agree to focus on conserving?
(a) Tibetan panda.
(b) The German loon.
(c) San Francisco garter snake.
(d) Alaskan polar bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurrence in nature does Amanda believe holds great, mysterious power?

2. What is Amanda's job in the Indo Tibetan Circus and Giant Panda Gypsy Blues Band?

3. What is John Paul's preferred method of transit?

4. What drug was once found on Plucky that helped lead to his dishonorable discharge from the military?

5. What dead animal do the Zillers have on display at their zoo?

(see the answer key)

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