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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. What did Plucky stumble over while walking in the woods?
(a) A woman being mugged.
(b) Mon Cul.
(c) A dead monk.
(d) A gentle grizzly bear.

2. What dead animal do the Zillers have on display at their zoo?
(a) A garter snake.
(b) A grizzly bear.
(c) A tsetse fly.
(d) A baboon.

3. When the narrator switches story lines after discussing the logistics of Amanda's hospitalization, in what state is he and Amanda?
(a) Interrogation within a secret society.
(b) Exile.
(c) Jail.
(d) Protective custody.

4. Which of John Paul and Amanda's friends also befriended Marx Marvelous, leading the man to seek out the couple?
(a) Nearly Normal Jimmy.
(b) Smokestack Lightening.
(c) Plucky Purcell.
(d) Baba.

5. With what insect is Marx Marvelous fascinated on a scientific level?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Houseflies.
(d) Ants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head of the secret society of monks?

2. What story does Plucky tell the rednecks to appease their anger at the circus folk?

3. How did Plucky manage to end his college football career?

4. How do Amanda and Ziller immediately feel about each other at first sight?

5. What concerns Amanda about John Paul's quiet anxiety as they restore their new home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Amanda and John Paul's wedding ceremony.

3. What solution does Amanda come up with in regards to the animal portion of their zoo?

4. Who is Amanda?

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

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

7. Describe the narrative form of "Another Roadside Attraction."

8. Why did Plucky become a drug dealer?

9. Describe the Society of the Felicitator.

10. What compromises do the Zillers make about food in their roadside zoo?

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