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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What solution does Amanda come up with in regards to their animal-less zoo?
2. What disappoint Amanda about the weather of her new home with John Paul?
3. For what does Marx express disdain in regard to Amanda?
4. What is Nearly Normal Jimmy's explanation for why thunderstorms can affect human beings so strongly?
5. What plants does John Paul bring Amanda in the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is significant about the suitcase found in Miami?
2. How does John Paul pay for Amanda's hospitalization?
3. How does Marx feel about John Paul and Amanda?
4. What is significant about Plucky's job in logging?
5. Why is Marx interested in working with John Paul and Amanda?
6. According to the jumps in the future with the narrator, what is significant about John Paul's disappearance?
7. Describe Plucky's college football career.
8. Describe John Paul Ziller's childhood.
9. How does Plucky infiltrate the Society of the Felicitator?
10. What are Marx's impressions of the hot dog stand?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about the death of John Paul Ziller in the following format:
Part 1) Foreshadowing.
Part 2) Returning to "the source."
Part 3) The artist and the metaphor.
Part 4) His relationship with Amanda.
Part 5) Sacrifice versus suicide.
Cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the characterization of Marx Marvelous in the following format:
Part 1) Scientist.
Part 2) Failed Agnostic.
Part 3) Attraction to Amanda's sexuality and mothering ways.
Part 4) Suicide attempt.
Part 5) His opinions on the fate of the Corpse.
Cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that presents the character of Mon Cul as the link between science and faith (Marx Marvelous's motivation through the novel). Discuss his layered role as a companion to John Paul (as well as the man's motivation for acquiring the baboon) and the significance behind the experimental balloon's need for baboons (particularly in regards to Mon Cul steering the balloon with himself, John Paul, and the Corpse as passengers). Develop a clear thesis statement on this topic and cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.
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