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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what animal did John Paul Zimmer return to Washington after his studies in Paris?
(a) Baboon.
(b) Parrot.
(c) Penguin.
(d) Dog.

2. How do Amanda and Ziller immediately feel about each other at first sight?
(a) Repulsion.
(b) Attraction.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Familiarity.

3. What disappoint Amanda about the weather of her new home with John Paul?
(a) There are very few thunderstorms.
(b) It never snows in the winter.
(c) The weather remains cold year-round.
(d) The wind is too strong for butterflies.

4. What did Marx previously conclude about Christianity, prior to his employment by the Zillers?
(a) The religion is dying.
(b) The religion is too timid.
(c) The religion understands the world.
(d) People have abandoned the religion to the zealots.

5. For what baked good does Amanda become famous?
(a) Mushroom cookies.
(b) Marijuana bread.
(c) Mushroom cakes.
(d) Marijuana brownies.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what keeps Plucky from having a traditionally handsome face?

2. What is Nearly Normal Jimmy's explanation for why thunderstorms can affect human beings so strongly?

3. What endangered animal do John Paul and Amanda agree to focus on conserving?

4. What is the name of Amanda's small child at the beginning of this novel?

5. In the different time frame, how does Amanda spend a great deal of her time, according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marx Marvelous attract John Paul and Amanda's attention?

2. How does the narrator equate butterflies to John Paul and Amanda?

3. Describe the Society of the Felicitator.

4. How does John Paul pay for Amanda's hospitalization?

5. Why was Plucky discharged from the military?

6. Why is John Paul distracted when he and Amanda begin to restore the shack and how does she feel about it?

7. Describe John Paul's gifts to his wife in the hospital and meaning behind them.

8. Why did Plucky become a drug dealer?

9. According to the jumps in the future with the narrator, what is significant about John Paul's disappearance?

10. Describe Plucky's college football career.

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