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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. How does Marx scientifically date the Corpse?
(a) Rate of deterioration.
(b) Carbon dating.
(c) The acidity of the cloths wrapping the Corpse.
(d) Fingerprint analysis.

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

3. What is Amanda's speech impediment?
(a) Lisp.
(b) Stutter.
(c) Dysprosody.
(d) Dysarthria.

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

5. Which of the four adults residing in the Ziller household during the episode with the Corpse points out that, no matter what they decide to do with Him, people will believe what they want and could destroy anything that tells them otherwise?
(a) Marx Marvelous.
(b) Plucky Purcell.
(c) Amanda.
(d) John Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Plucky's secret lover when he is at the monastery?

2. How does Plucky Purcell feel about the monks around him?

3. Who is in bed with Amanda when Marx returns home?

4. How does Plucky explain the Corpse encased in a nun's habit to anyone who questions him leaving the Vatican?

5. Upon what subject does Marx regularly lectures guests at the zoo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Plucky escape from the Vatican with the Corpse?

2. What is significant about Amanda's wishes for the Corpse?

3. What is Plucky Purcell's fate and final message?

4. Why does Amanda refuse to sleep with Marx and what occurs after her announcement?

5. Why does Amanda decide she no longer wishes to be a part of the Corpse's future?

6. What observations do the Zillers and Marx make about the loggers and their work?

7. What is Amanda's theory about Marx's presence at their zoo?

8. How does Plucky stumble over the Corpse?

9. Why does Marx attempt suicide and what change overcome him as a result?

10. Discuss the continual conflict between Marx and Amanda prior to his suicide attempt.

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