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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, pages 294-327, and Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After detailing Plucky's escape from the Vatican, whom does Marx address for posterity?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Baby Thor.
(c) John Paul.
(d) The Cowboy.

2. Why did Marx marry his friend's pregnant lover?
(a) He was paid to help her out.
(b) He was blackmailed into doing so.
(c) He wanted to have a child.
(d) He fell in love with her.

3. According to Nearly Normal Jimmy's trance message to Amanda at the end of the book, what movie will set Tibet on the correct spiritual path again?
(a) Yellow Submarine.
(b) Hair.
(c) Billy Jack.
(d) Casablanca.

4. What is significant about Amanda's pregnancy on the first night of her relationship with Ziller?
(a) Ziller ignores the pregnancy entirely.
(b) Ziller grows angry at her pregnancy.
(c) Ziller suggests that he is still the father.
(d) Ziller is initially concerned, but lets it pass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Amanda initially impressed with Marx's theory of her spiritual state?

2. What does Amanda purchase from the Cowboy after Marx's employment?

3. In Marx's vision, upon what animal does Tarzan ride?

4. What concerns Amanda about John Paul's quiet anxiety as they restore their new home?

5. According to Marx, whose body is in the pantry when he returns home to the Zillers from vacation?

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