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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Amanda suggest about the FBI agent's anger at her ideas to Marx?
(a) He knows Amanda is right.
(b) He is a symbol junkie.
(c) He thinks Amanda is spoiled and entitled.
(d) He is too afraid to question the allegiances in his life.

3. Why was Pan highly sexual, according to Tarzan?
(a) He was an animal from the waist down.
(b) He lived in nature.
(c) He believed sex was what kept belief in Him alive.
(d) He was a heavy drinker of wine.

4. What must Marx run as one of his duties at the zoo?
(a) The flea circus.
(b) The hot dog turner.
(c) The candle light show.
(d) The juicer.

5. Around summertime of Marx's employment, what subject does he frequently discuss with John Paul?
(a) Art.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Philosophy.

6. What hint does John Paul leave behind for Amanda when he, Plucky, and Mon Cul run away the Corpse?
(a) A map of Jerusalem.
(b) His journal, which details his dreams about dying in the sunlight.
(c) A magazine clipping about a deadly expedition into the Arctic.
(d) An article about an experimental solar balloon that can be manned by baboons.

7. What movie does Nearly Normal Jimmy carry with him on his journey to his next destination from the Peace Corp?
(a) Tarzan's Triumph.
(b) The Maltese Falcon.
(c) King Kong.
(d) Casablanca.

8. The night after she makes love to Marx, what does Amanda reveal to him?
(a) She no longer believes in God.
(b) She is pregnant with John Paul's child.
(c) She is sending Baby Thor to Tibet with Nearly Normal Jimmy.
(d) She will join John Paul one way or the other.

9. Why does Amanda appear to flummox the FBI agents in the future?
(a) She is able to smuggle her animals out of the house without their notice.
(b) She points out that they have done nothing wrong.
(c) She feeds them her marijuana cookies.
(d) She nearly forces him to question his reliance on symbols.

10. Why does Amanda believe that Marx joined their zoo?
(a) Marx longs for simple working pleasures.
(b) Marx is obsessed with baboons.
(c) Marx is missing spiritual significance in his life and is hoping to find it with them.
(d) Marx is in love with her.

11. Why is Plucky able to easily leave the Vatican with the disguised Corpse?
(a) He bribes everyone he finds.
(b) No one wants to tangle with a man from the Society of the Felicitator.
(c) He knocks anyone who opposes his exit unconscious.
(d) He uses a hidden passageway from the catacombs.

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

13. How did the narrator and Amanda liberate the fleas?
(a) The fleas were released from the window.
(b) The fleas were placed on the invisible dog.
(c) The fleas crept out onto a tree branch.
(d) The fleas were mailed.

14. After his suicide attempt, what changes begin to occur in Marx?
(a) He begins to question his scientific notions.
(b) He begins to relax about the notions of religion and spirituality.
(c) He begins to pursue other women.
(d) He begins to explore the idea of going to Tibet.

15. From what infirmity do the caretaker nuns in the Vatican suffer?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Muteness.
(d) They lack feeling in their hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the Pope in power at the Vatican?

2. Upon what subject does Marx regularly lectures guests at the zoo?

3. According to Amanda, what imbalance in Christianity has caused years of needless violence and bloodshed?

4. Fill in the blank: Amanda pays for her purchase from the Cowboy (acquired after the employment of Marx Marvelous) with four wishes and ___ _____.

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

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