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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, pages 259-293.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument does Ziller play as Amanda sings during their first meeting?
(a) Horn.
(b) Piano.
(c) Flute.
(d) Drums.

2. What story does Amanda tell everyone while they cool off from considering their problem with the Corpse?
(a) Her first lover.
(b) The mountain hermit's sense of the divine.
(c) The trance which left the symbol upon her hand.
(d) The relationship between butterflies and Eden.

3. What is the name of John Paul's former band?
(a) Hoodoo Meat Bucket.
(b) Southern Upstarts.
(c) Long-Haired Freaky People.
(d) Congolese Congo Kings.

4. What is the name of Amanda's small child at the beginning of this novel?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Thor.
(d) Odin.

5. How does Plucky Purcell feel about the monks around him?
(a) Respectful.
(b) Afraid.
(c) Disgusted.
(d) Amused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx suggest as being the beginning stages of John Paul and Amanda's spiritualism?

2. What does Marx humorously note about Plucky and the Corpse's plane ride from Rome to Seattle?

3. How do Amanda and Ziller immediately feel about each other at first sight?

4. With what sort of friends and clients does Plucky prefer to associate?

5. What does Ziller generally report as his profession on government forms?

(see the answer key)

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