View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Zillers rarely drink alcohol?
(a) They find it to be an imperfect drug.
(b) They dislike the taste of it.
(c) Amanda gets sick from it.
(d) John Paul believes it is sent from Hell.

2. Who is revealed to be the narrator of this book?
(a) Baby Thor.
(b) John Paul.
(c) Plucky Purcell.
(d) Marx Marvelous.

3. On their way from their vegetation hunt, what depresses the Zillers and Marx?
(a) The setting sun.
(b) The tree stumps that result from logging.
(c) The broken glass littering the highways.
(d) The smog.

4. What suggestion does Amanda give Marx about being able to think clearly on his own the night everyone goes their separate ways to consider the fate of the Corpse?
(a) Smoke marijuana before falling asleep.
(b) Open a window.
(c) Sleep upside down.
(d) Listen to the trees.

5. What story does Amanda tell everyone while they cool off from considering their problem with the Corpse?
(a) The trance which left the symbol upon her hand.
(b) The mountain hermit's sense of the divine.
(c) Her first lover.
(d) The relationship between butterflies and Eden.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Nearly Normal Jimmy's trance message to Amanda at the end of the book, what movie will set Tibet on the correct spiritual path again?

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

3. Why do the Zillers, Marx, and Plucky find the Second Coming problematic?

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

5. Prior to Marx's vacation, what is the subject of many intellectual conflicts between Marx and Amanda?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What purpose does the delivery man serve in interrupting the group's celebration?

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

7. Describe the Second Coming as Marx discovers it.

8. What is Plucky's theory on the presence of the Corpse in regards to the Church?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,442 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample