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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What beverages are offered at the ceremonies in Chapter 102?
(a) Water and orange juice.
(b) Tomato juice and rum.
(c) Pepsi and native rum.
(d) Champagne and Coke.

2. By what names does the narrator refer to the sun in Chapter 90?
(a) Borasisi.
(b) Saroon.
(c) Pabu.
(d) Stuppa.

3. What causes the rockslide in Chapter 115?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A plane crashes into the cliff.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A UFO crashes into the castle.

4. Who performs "Cat House Piano" on the album that Newt plays in Chapter 81?
(a) Marvin Sharpe Holderness.
(b) Lionel Boyd Johnson.
(c) Meade Lux Lewis.
(d) Sherman Krebbs.

5. What nickname does Frank Hoenikker descrbe being called as a youth in Chapter 89?
(a) "Secret Agent X-9."
(b) "Plane-Boy."
(c) "Freckle-Face."
(d) "Atomic Bomb Junior."

6. What Bokononist word refers to "a fogbound child"?
(a) "Saroon."
(b) "Sin-wat."
(c) "Wampeter."
(d) "Stuppa."

7. What is the name of the servant who greets John at Frank Hoenikker's home in Chapter 74?
(a) Stanley.
(b) James.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Peter.

8. Julian Castle claims in Chapter 104 that "The people of San Lorenzo are only interested in three things." What are these three things?
(a) "Hunting, fishing, and hiking."
(b) "Writing, singing, and dancing."
(c) "Fishing, fornication, and Boknonism."
(d) "Reading, poetry, and love."

9. What is one phrase that "pool-pah" has been translated as in The Books of Bokonon?
(a) "Love of God."
(b) "Wrath of God."
(c) "Trust in Humanity."
(d) "The moon."

10. What is the title of Chapter 71?
(a) "The Happiness of Being an American."
(b) "Just Like Saint Augustine."
(c) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(d) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."

11. What catalogue is found in Papa Monzano's bomb shelter in Chapter 117?
(a) Freeman's.
(b) Ambrose Wilson.
(c) Fifty-Plus.
(d) Sears and Roebuck.

12. At what time does Frank say the air show is to go off in Chapter 100?
(a) 4:00.
(b) 2:00.
(c) 1:00.
(d) 3:00.

13. How is the fan driven in the ventilation shaft of the bomb shelter in Papa Manzano's castle?
(a) A see-saw.
(b) By stationary bicycle.
(c) An ice-machine.
(d) A hanging cord.

14. Chapter 76 is titled "Julian Castle Agrees with Newt that Everything is" what?
(a) "Meaningful."
(b) "Bokononism."
(c) "Destructive."
(d) "Meaningless."

15. What is the title of Chapter 95?
(a) "I see the Hook."
(b) "A White Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter."
(c) "Protein."
(d) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian Castle say his playboy days had cost him in Chapter 80?

2. Whom does John invite specifically to the ceremonies in Chapter 101?

3. What is the title of Chapter 78?

4. Julian Castle tells John in Chapter 78, "Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was" what?

5. At what hotel does John check in, along with the Crosbys, in Chapter 69?

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