Cat's Cradle | Short Essay Answer Key

Short Essay Answer Key

1. What does Bokonon mean by karass?

Teams that do God's will unintentionally. When you find your life tangled up with someone else's for no logical reason, Bokonon teaches, that person is likely a member of your karass. Occupation, class, family and nationality are irrelevant to karass, which is depicted as free-form, like an amoeba.

2. What is Bokonon's opinion of the lady who claimed to understand exactly what God intended for the past and the future perfectly

That she is a fool. Anyone who claims to understand what God is doing is a fool according to Bokonon.

3. To whom did Bokonon tell the lady to take the blueprints and why?

To her husband or minister because they would serve as her link to God and help her read the blueprint.

4. What is the first sentence in The Book of Bokonon?

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