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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the training camp for soldiers on San Lorenzo?
(a) Fort Grayson.
(b) Fort Jesus.
(c) Fort Alabama.
(d) Fort Rock.

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

3. How much was the most that Dr. Felix Hoenikker made as a yearly salary at General Forge and Foundry?
(a) $28,000.
(b) $19,000.
(c) $45,000.
(d) $64,000.

4. What is the title of Chapter 78?
(a) "Ring of Steel."
(b) "Secret Agent X-9."
(c) "End of the World Delight."
(d) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."

5. What does John cook for Mona and himself in the bomb shelter in Chapter 117?
(a) Campbell's chicken gumbo soup.
(b) Ramen noodles with broth.
(c) Campbell's tomato soup.
(d) A steak and baked potato.

6. Whom does John invite specifically to the ceremonies in Chapter 101?
(a) Lyman Enders Knowles.
(b) Nestor Aamons.
(c) Andrew James Krementz.
(d) Julian and Philip Castle.

7. To whom had Frank Hoenikker's house once belonged?
(a) Nestor Aamons.
(b) George Minor Moakely.
(c) Julian Castle.
(d) Sherman Krebbs.

8. How many airplanes comprise the San Lorenzan Air Force?
(a) 26.
(b) 6.
(c) 16.
(d) 2.

9. Where does Frank place the hot plate in Chapter 111?
(a) On the sewer drain.
(b) On the bookcase.
(c) On the xylophone.
(d) On the piano.

10. What is the title of Chapter 100?
(a) "Secret Agent X-9."
(b) "A White Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter."
(c) "Down the Oubliette Goes Frank."
(d) "Pabu."

11. What is the name of the U.S. Ambassador that attends John's swearing in ceremony?
(a) Lionel Boyd Johnson.
(b) Lyman Enders Knowles.
(c) Marvin Sharpe Holderness.
(d) Horlick Minton.

12. 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) "Reading, poetry, and love."
(c) "Fishing, fornication, and Boknonism."
(d) "Writing, singing, and dancing."

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

14. What is the title of Chapter 81?
(a) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(b) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(c) "Secret Agent X-9."
(d) "A White Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter."

15. How many taxicabs are there on the island of San Lorenzo?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 114?

2. What is the one word from The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, titled "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years"?

3. Who performs "Cat House Piano" on the album that Newt plays in Chapter 81?

4. What is the name of the mountain range that rises abruptly to the north of the capital city of San Lorenzo?

5. What is the name of the doctor that has been frozen along with Papa Monzano?

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