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

2. According to the Peace Corp officer's letter, where is Nearly Normal Jimmy going?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Tibet.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Lhasa.

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

4. What does Marx suggest as being the beginning stages of John Paul and Amanda's spiritualism?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Freedom from conventions.
(c) The need to create a better world for their children.
(d) Dissatisfaction with the world.

5. When John Paul leaves a note for Amanda in the hospital, in what form does he express his sympathies?
(a) Iambic pentameter.
(b) Haiku.
(c) Prose.
(d) Limerick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Plucky explain the Corpse encased in a nun's habit to anyone who questions him leaving the Vatican?

3. Plucky Purcell concludes that he does not hate Catholicism. What does he realize he detests instead?

4. 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?

5. What is significant about the presence of the federal agents at the zoo at the end of the book?

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