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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 100-106.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Bokononist word from the novel refers to a man who wants all of somebody's love?
(a) "Vin-dit."
(b) "Kan-kan."
(c) "Sin-wat."
(d) "Saroon."

3. What is the married name of Newt's sister, as revealed in his letter in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. Newton B. Anderson.
(b) Mrs. J. Smith Beacon.
(c) Mrs. Quincy Rudolph.
(d) Mrs. Harrison C. Conners.

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

5. What is Dr. Breed's position at the Research Laboratory of the General Forge and Foundry Company?
(a) Secretary.
(b) President.
(c) Researcher.
(d) Vice-president.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died at Julian Castle's hospital in ten days after the plague outbreak, according to his son in Chapter 73?

2. Where does the narrator describe the Episcopalian woman living in Chapter 3?

3. Julian Castle claims in Chapter 104 that "The people of San Lorenzo are only interested in three things." What are these three things?

4. What Bokononist word refers to "a fogbound child"?

5. What is the term used for a Bokononist poem?

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