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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Marx feel about Amanda?
2. Which of John Paul and Amanda's friends also befriended Marx Marvelous, leading the man to seek out the couple?
3. What plants does John Paul bring Amanda in the hospital?
4. In the different time frame, how does Amanda spend a great deal of her time, according to the narrator?
5. In what city were forty of the entertainers in the Indo Tibetan Circus and Giant Panda Gypsy Blues Band arrested?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the differing opinions on the spiritual power of thunderstorms?
2. How does Ziller end up joining the Indo-Tibetan Circus?
3. How does Marx feel about John Paul and Amanda?
4. Describe Plucky's college football career.
5. Why did Marx create a new name for himself?
6. What happens to Amanda's pregnancy?
7. Why is Marx interested in working with John Paul and Amanda?
8. How does John Paul pay for Amanda's hospitalization?
9. What is significant about Plucky's job in logging?
10. How does Marx Marvelous attract John Paul and Amanda's attention?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the possibilities that Marx, Plucky, and Ziller consider for the Corpse and why? What are the pros and cons to every idea? How do their personal viewpoints affect their opinions on the Corpse's fate? What are some of the morally gray areas about which the four of them are forced to debate in this regard? Discuss the answers to these questions in an essay. Cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the government and the church in "Another Roadside Attraction." Discuss how Amanda's discussions with the federal agents and Plucky's encounter with Sister Hillary are reflective of an institution's ability to use innocent people for their own purposes. Finally, analyze the flaws in these systems as presented in this book and how Marx's theories about the downfall of these institutions is slow, yet inevitable.
Essay Topic 3
"He's a symbol junkie . . . people like him- that is, the majority- are strung out on symbols. They're so addicted that they prefer abstract symbols to the concrete things which symbols represent. It's much easier to cope with the abstract than with the concrete; there's no direct, personal involvement- and you can keep an abstract idea steady in your mind whereas real things are usually in a state of flux and always changing. It's safer to play around with a man's wife than with his cliches." Write an essay about Amanda's statement. Discuss what it means to the Second Coming as depicted in this novel and how it affects the ways in which Amanda and John Paul live their lives. Develop a clear thesis statement and cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.
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