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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 is significant about the presence of the federal agents at the zoo at the end of the book?
(a) They are employed by the Vatican.
(b) They believe they are investigating a drug ring.
(c) They know nothing of the Corpse.
(d) They have arrested Father Gustadt.

2. According to his letter, why does Plucky entertain notions of burning down the monastery?
(a) He is afraid that they will spread their anger throughout the world.
(b) He thinks he is being held prisoner.
(c) His next assignment appears to be an assassination.
(d) He believes there is no point to living.

3. After the launch of the solar balloon, whose dead body was found?
(a) Mon Cul.
(b) Jesus.
(c) John Paul.
(d) Plucky.

4. What is singularly remarkable about people's recognition of the Corpse?
(a) Everyone recognizes the wounds from his last day alive.
(b) People refuse to believe that it is He.
(c) People understand who it is without needing to be told.
(d) The Corpse looks as if He just died, rendering everyone able to recognize him.

5. What devices are used to motivate the nuns and priests to continue working diligently at the Vatican?
(a) Metronomes.
(b) Clocks.
(c) Electronic maps.
(d) World population counters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Plucky Purcell concludes that he does not hate Catholicism. What does he realize he detests instead?

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

3. What drew Marx away from following his mother's religion?

4. What does Marx suggest as being the beginning stages of John Paul and Amanda's spiritualism?

5. What is Plucky's assignment in Vatican City?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Plucky notice about the Vatican that pushes him to conclude that the Catholic church is dying?

3. What is Marx's suggestion about Plucky's plan for the Corpse and why?

4. Who is Sister Hillary and why is she important?

5. How do the Zillers, Plucky and Marx allow themselves to relax before addressing the presence of the Corpse?

6. Why is Plucky being sent to Vatican City and why is this significant?

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

8. What is John Paul's plan for the Corpse when he disappears with it, Mon Cul, and Plucky Purcell?

9. What does Amanda point out that squashes Pulcky and Marx's idea of using the corpse to blackmail people in charge of the world?

10. What argument does Marx use on Amanda against vegetarianism and what conclusions does she draw from this?

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