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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. How much money did Dr. Felix Hoenikker earn for each patent his work led to at General Forge and Foundry?
(a) $25.
(b) $45.
(c) $4,000.
(d) $200.

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

3. To what melody is the San Lorenzo National Anthem sung?
(a) "Silent Night."
(b) "Home on the Range."
(c) "The Star-Spangled Banner."
(d) "O Christmas Tree."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to acquiesce to the seeming demands of one's "vin-dit"?

2. What is the company that Angela's husband is President of, according to Newt in Chapter 80?

3. What is the name of the servant who greets John at Frank Hoenikker's home in Chapter 74?

4. What does Frank tell Angela she "bought" with her portion of Ice-nine in Chapter 109?

5. What Bokononist word means "lies"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is John's encounter with Mona described in Chapter 91?

2. How is Newt's painting described in Chapter 74? What does it signify?

3. What does the narrator comment regarding old men and wars in the novel?

4. How did Dr. Felix Hoenikker die? What clues allude to how he died?

5. What is satirical about the "writer's strike" that Philip Castle proposes in Chapter 103?

6. How does Julian Castle describe Bokonon's relationship to the truth in Chapter 78?

7. What symbolism can be seen in the story of the shipwreck on San Lorenzo that is related by Philip Castle?

8. How is the Papa Monzano's bomb shelter described in Chapter 117?

9. How does the narrator describe the morality surrounding the Hoenikker children taking the Ice-nine in Chapter 113?

10. What is done with Dr. Von Koenigswald's body in Chapter 113? Why?

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