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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What materials are required to play the "Cat's Cradle" game that is described in the narrative?
(a) Balls.
(b) String.
(c) Runes.
(d) Mallets.

2. What is the title of Chapter 28?
(a) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(b) "Mayonnaise."
(c) "No More Mud."
(d) "Protein."

3. In what fraternity was the narrator a member during his college years?
(a) Delta Upsilon.
(b) Beta Theta Pi.
(c) Theta Chi.
(d) Kappa Sigma.

4. What does the narrator tell the reader to call him in Chapter 1?
(a) Harry.
(b) Jonah.
(c) Paul.
(d) George.

5. What is the book about that the narrator describes writing in Chapter 1?
(a) The final days of World War I.
(b) Hitler's rise to power and his eventual suicide.
(c) The advancements of technology in the twenty-first century.
(d) The day the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima.

6. What does Dr. Breed's secretary say "God really is" in Chapter 26?
(a) "Man."
(b) "Nothing."
(c) "Love."
(d) "Fear."

7. Whom is John sent to write an article about in San Lorenzo in Chapter 40?
(a) Julian Castle.
(b) Marvin Sharpe Holderness.
(c) Sherman Krebbs.
(d) George Minor Moakely.

8. What is the title of Chapter 21?
(a) "The Marines March On."
(b) "End of the World Delight."
(c) "No More Mud."
(d) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."

9. What was the Cape Cod Room called at the time when the atomic bomb was dropped on HIroshima?
(a) The Red Room.
(b) The Navajo Tepee.
(c) The Casa Mona.
(d) The White Horse Lounge.

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

11. Where was Bokonon born?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Tobago.

12. What was the name of Remington Rumfoord's steam yacht that he traveled the world in with Bokonon?
(a) The Raven.
(b) The Lady's Slipper.
(c) The White Lion.
(d) The Scheherazade.

13. How old was Newt Hoenikker when his father died?
(a) 13.
(b) 22.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

14. Who was the prisoner that wrote and sent his book to Dr. Felix Hoenikker?
(a) Andrew James Krementz.
(b) Marvin Sharpe Holderness.
(c) William H. Skawinski.
(d) Julian William Anderson.

15. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) "End of the World Delight."
(b) "No More Mud."
(c) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(d) "Secret Agent X-9."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Hoenikker family living at the time that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?

2. What was Bokonon's christened name?

3. How much is the long-distance phone bill that the poet left behind in John's apartment in Chapter 36?

4. Where does Newt's sister live, according to his letter in Chapter 5?

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

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