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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What false alarm frightens the group from their story-telling session when trying to decide what to do with the Corpse?
(a) A knock on the door.
(b) Mon Cul wakes up from a nightmare.
(c) A shelving unit breaking loose.
(d) A thunderstorm.

3. In Marx's vision, upon what animal does Tarzan ride?
(a) A zebra.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A horse.
(d) A goat.

4. Why is Amanda initially impressed with Marx's theory of her spiritual state?
(a) She enjoys the passion in his words.
(b) She likes the musical candences in his voice.
(c) He reminds her of the mountain hermit who mentored her.
(d) She respects his large vocabulary.

5. What is significant about the presence of the federal agents at the zoo at the end of the book?
(a) They are employed by the Vatican.
(b) They have arrested Father Gustadt.
(c) They believe they are investigating a drug ring.
(d) They know nothing of the Corpse.

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

7. What does Amanda purchase from the Cowboy after Marx's employment?
(a) An invisible dog.
(b) The world's largest hat.
(c) A nearly-extinct butterfly.
(d) A rooster.

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

9. For what reasons does Marx persuade Plucky that revealing the Corpse to the world would be a bad idea?
(a) Jesus would not have wanted to be used in this manner.
(b) They would be murdered before they could reveal the Corpse.
(c) No one would believe them.
(d) The revelation could destroy people's lives.

10. When Tarzan compares Jesus to Pan, what does he claim the two divine beings had in common?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Love for others.
(c) Love of wine.
(d) Music.

11. What significant fact is brought into questioning concerning the presence of the Corpse?
(a) The will of God.
(b) The fate of Christianity if Jesus had not risen from the dead.
(c) Jesus's wishes at His death for the disposal of His body.
(d) The Vatican's retaliation about losing the Corpse.

12. What story does John Paul tell while the group considers their options about the Corpse?
(a) African natives and the mysterious radio transmissions which continue to mystify them.
(b) His belief in innate goodness of men as evidenced by his travels in Africa.
(c) The conquest of Africa by Christianity and science.
(d) His first sight of Amanda.

13. For what piece of vegetation does Marx help the Zillers hunt?
(a) Apples.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Spinach.

14. Plucky Purcell concludes that he does not hate Catholicism. What does he realize he detests instead?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Totalitarianism.
(d) Celibacy.

15. According to Amanda, what imbalance in Christianity has caused years of needless violence and bloodshed?
(a) The idea of free will versus fate.
(b) The interpretations of Jesus's words.
(c) The gender dynamics.
(d) The belief in what will get one into Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what infirmity do the caretaker nuns in the Vatican suffer?

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

3. After and despite her declaration that she cannot sleep with Marx, what transpires between Marx and Amanda?

4. What does Plucky note about the vaults under the Vatican?

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

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