1. What is the title of the book that the narrator describes writing in Chapter 1?
(a) The Ice-nine Cloud.
(b) The Day the World Ended.
(c) The Book of Bokonon.
(d) Dreams of Tomorrow.

2. Who is the eccentril elevator operator that John encounters in Chapter 28?
(a) Andrew James Krementz.
(b) Lyman Enders Knowles.
(c) Marvin Sharpe Holderness.
(d) George Minor Moakely.

3. How old was Newt Hoenikker when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) 6.
(b) 13.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

4. What does John claim Alfred Nobel invented in Chapter 32?
(a) Steel.
(b) Dynamite.
(c) The submarine.
(d) Gunpowder.

5. What Christmas carol do the "girls" of Dr. Breed's office sing in Chapter 20?
(a) "White Christmas."
(b) "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem."
(c) "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
(d) "Silent Night."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say in Chapter 32 "is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is"?

2. What does the narrator tell the reader to call him in Chapter 1?

3. What word refers to the instrument that brings a person into his "team" in the beliefs of Bokononists?

4. What does Dr. Breed accuse John of being a member of in Chapter 21?

5. Whom is John sent to write an article about in San Lorenzo in Chapter 40?

(see the answer key)

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