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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 false alarm frightens the group from their story-telling session when trying to decide what to do with the Corpse?
(a) Mon Cul wakes up from a nightmare.
(b) A knock on the door.
(c) A shelving unit breaking loose.
(d) A thunderstorm.

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

3. Why was Pan highly sexual, according to Tarzan?
(a) He believed sex was what kept belief in Him alive.
(b) He was a heavy drinker of wine.
(c) He was an animal from the waist down.
(d) He lived in nature.

4. When Tarzan compares Jesus to Pan, what does he claim the two divine beings had in common?
(a) Love for others.
(b) Love of wine.
(c) Music.
(d) Spirituality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days do the Zillers, Marx, and Plucky give themselves to decide what to do about the Corpse?

2. After detailing Plucky's escape from the Vatican, whom does Marx address for posterity?

3. Despite her open marriage with John Paul, why does Amanda refuse to have sex with Marx?

4. What hint does John Paul leave behind for Amanda when he, Plucky, and Mon Cul run away the Corpse?

5. What does Amanda attempt to teach Marx in his first days with their zoos?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Plucky stumble over the Corpse?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Marx and Amanda's last night and morning at the zoo.

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

8. According to Tarzan, why did men start fearing death?

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

10. What is significant about the Corpse's appearance?

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