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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, pages 119-166.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For which college did Plucky play football?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) California Tech.
(c) Duke University.
(d) Texas Tech.

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

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

4. Where was Plucky forced to outrun a knife-wielding man?
(a) Buenos Aires.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Guadalajara.
(d) Cabo.

5. What is significant about Marx Marvelous's introduction to John Paul and Amanda?
(a) He proposes to Amanda immediately.
(b) He had been counting on them to post bail.
(c) He claims to be an old friend of Plucky's.
(d) He tells them he is worried about Mon Cul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Plucky able to sneak away from the monastery to write letters?

2. What is significant about Amanda's pregnancy on the first night of her relationship with Ziller?

3. When John Paul leaves a note for Amanda in the hospital, in what form does he express his sympathies?

4. Why do the rednecks at the bar disapprove of the circus?

5. What does Marx believe about John Paul and Amanda in regards to religion?

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