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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days do the Zillers, Marx, and Plucky give themselves to decide what to do about the Corpse?
(a) Three days.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Two days.

2. What keeps Marx from becoming too jealous over Plucky's sexual encounter with Amanda?
(a) John Paul's assertation that Plucky needed to be with Amanda.
(b) The Corpse.
(c) The fear of death.
(d) Mon Cul's illness.

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

4. In this flash-forward into the future, of what does Marx feel he and Amanda are running out?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Excuses for John Paul's absence.
(d) Time.

5. While Amanda ultimately decides there is nothing morally wrong with eating meat, with what practice does she take umbrage?
(a) Animals in stockyards.
(b) Forced mating.
(c) Hunting animals for fun instead of food.
(d) Animals raised for fast food purposes.

6. What self-imposed is inflicting Jesus in Marx's vision?
(a) He is fasting.
(b) He has refused beverage for days in the desert.
(c) He has been awake for forty days.
(d) He has flogged himself.

7. How old is Plucky's secret lover when he is at the monastery?
(a) Eighteen years old.
(b) Fifteen years old.
(c) Forty years old.
(d) Twenty-five years old.

8. What impresses and intimidates Plucky about the Vatican?
(a) The splendor.
(b) The severity of it all.
(c) The ancient artifacts.
(d) Its vastness.

9. After the arrival of Father Gustadt and the undercover agents, what does Marx wake up to discover the next day?
(a) Father Gustadt is threatening to burn the zoo down around them if they do not hand over the Corpse.
(b) John Paul has been arrested.
(c) John Paul, Plucky, and Mon Cul have taken the Corpse and disappeared.
(d) Plucky has buried the Corpse at sea.

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

11. What drew Marx away from following his mother's religion?
(a) His rebelliousness against conformity.
(b) His father.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His annoyance at sitting through church services.

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

13. What did Amanda send Plucky Purcell for Christmas?
(a) Marijuana cookies.
(b) Beer bread.
(c) LSD-laced candy.
(d) Mushroom tea.

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

15. What does Marx humorously note about Plucky and the Corpse's plane ride from Rome to Seattle?
(a) It is the Messiah's first trip of this nature.
(b) Plucky must have eaten all of Amanda's marijuana cookies in order to relax on the plane.
(c) The passengers must have felt extraordinarily peaceful.
(d) The airplane must be blessed against all occurances.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what piece of vegetation does Marx help the Zillers hunt?

2. Who rescues Marx from his suicide attempt?

3. In order to smuggle the Corpse out of the country, within what does Plucky convince his artist friend to encase the body?

4. Why do the Zillers rarely drink alcohol?

5. What suggestion does Amanda give Marx about being able to think clearly on his own the night everyone goes their separate ways to consider the fate of the Corpse?

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