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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Crosby's first name?
(a) Mona.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Marie.
(d) Elizabeth.

2. How much is the long-distance phone bill that the poet left behind in John's apartment in Chapter 36?
(a) $200.
(b) $500.
(c) $300.
(d) $1,000.

3. What was the name of Dr. Breed's wife?
(a) Angela.
(b) Marie.
(c) Emily.
(d) Sarah.

4. What is the melting point of Ice-nine?
(a) 136.2 degrees Farenheit.
(b) 98.6 degrees Farenheit.
(c) 114.4 degrees Farenheit.
(d) 122 degrees Farenheit.

5. What is Chapter 12's title?
(a) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(b) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(c) "End of the World Delight."
(d) "Secret Agent X-9."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the prisoner that wrote and sent his book to Dr. Felix Hoenikker?

2. What was the name of Remington Rumfoord's steam yacht that he traveled the world in with Bokonon?

3. To whom is the poem attributed on the tombstone that says, "Mother, Mother, how I pray / For you to guard us every day"?

4. What does Dr. Breed's secretary say "God really is" in Chapter 26?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the stone angel monument at the sales room in Ilium?

2. What is meant by Mrs. Minton's remarks on indexing in Chapter 55?

3. How is Bokonon's history and arrival at San Lorenzo described in Chapter 48?

4. How is Miss Pefko characterized in the novel?

5. How does fate bring the narrator to San Lorenzo?

6. What irony is revealed in Dr. Breed's assessments of Ilium's history in Chapter 13?

7. How is the theory of "Dynamic Tension" described in Chapter 47?

8. What is significant about Frank's action of staging bug fights in Chapter 6?

9. What is significant about the metaphor of cannonballs in the narrative?

10. Who is Lyman Knowles and what does he represent in the novel?

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