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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 governmental agency is revealed to be involved with the mysterious magician?
(a) DEA.
(b) CIA.
(c) FBI.
(d) NEA.

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

3. What did Amanda once hide inside a hollow tree in order to trick woodpeckers into pecking the tree?
(a) A bird's nest.
(b) A fake bird.
(c) A ticking clock.
(d) A stash of food.

4. What endangered animal do John Paul and Amanda agree to focus on conserving?
(a) Tibetan panda.
(b) San Francisco garter snake.
(c) The German loon.
(d) Alaskan polar bear.

5. Why does Mon Cul bite one of the rednecks?
(a) Mon Cul overheard their plans to hurt John Paul.
(b) The man moves too quickly for the startled baboon.
(c) The man tries to feed Mon Cul a banana.
(d) Mon Cul thought that Plucky was about to be attacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What solution does Amanda come up with in regards to their animal-less zoo?

2. In what city were forty of the entertainers in the Indo Tibetan Circus and Giant Panda Gypsy Blues Band arrested?

3. Why do the rednecks at the bar disapprove of the circus?

4. For what does Marx express disdain in regard to Amanda?

5. For what baked good does Amanda become famous?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John Paul Ziller's childhood.

2. Who is Amanda?

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

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

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

6. Why is Marx interested in working with John Paul and Amanda?

7. How does Plucky infiltrate the Society of the Felicitator?

8. Why is Marx on the run from the government?

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

10. What are the differing opinions on the spiritual power of thunderstorms?

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