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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What awakens the group the first morning they have assembled together to discuss the Second Coming?
(a) The arrival of Father Gustadt.
(b) A deliveryman.
(c) Gunshots for hunting season.
(d) A thunderstorm.

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

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

4. According to Marx, whose body is in the pantry when he returns home to the Zillers from vacation?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Plucky Purcell.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Father Gustadt.

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

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

7. In order to smuggle the Corpse out of the country, within what does Plucky convince his artist friend to encase the body?
(a) Marble.
(b) A wooden sarcophagus.
(c) Plaster.
(d) Papier-mache.

8. According to Tarzan, what caused men to lose touch with death and, thus, created an unnatural fear of it?
(a) Men no longer tilled their own fields.
(b) Men only looked to God for answers instead of inside themselves.
(c) Men created the ideas of Heaven and Hell for an afterlife.
(d) Men no longer looked to the stars for answers.

9. When Marx is introduced to the letters of Plucky, how long has Plucky Purcell been in the monastery?
(a) One year.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Five months.
(d) Three months.

10. Who rescues Marx from his suicide attempt?
(a) The Cowboy.
(b) Plucky Purcell.
(c) Amanda.
(d) John Paul.

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

12. How does Plucky and the others know that Father Gustadt has found them?
(a) Their neighbor tells them a priest was asking for John Paul.
(b) His bootprint was found by the front door.
(c) John Paul's letters to Plucky at the monastery turn up on their front stoop.
(d) They hear his voice.

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

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

15. What are Amanda's wishes for the Corpse?
(a) She wants to give Him a proper burial.
(b) She wants to take Him public.
(c) She wants to blackmail the higher powers with the Corpse.
(d) She wants to give Him back to the Vatican.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Amanda tell everyone while they cool off from considering their problem with the Corpse?

2. After his suicide attempt, what changes begin to occur in Marx?

3. Given the existence of the Society of the Felicitate, what does Plucky point out as being a probable solution from the Vatican?

4. What self-imposed is inflicting Jesus in Marx's vision?

5. Who is revealed to be the narrator of this book?

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