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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(b) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(c) "End of the World Delight."
(d) "Protein."

3. What is the first sentence in The Books of Bokonon?
(a) "Everything exists for the glory of God."
(b) "Do not dwell on the sins of yesterday, but walk into the light of tomorrow."
(c) "Nothing."
(d) "All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies."

4. Where was the Hoenikker family living at the time that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Ilium, New York.
(b) Princeton, New Jersey.
(c) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(d) Ithaca, New York.

5. For what company did Dr. Felix Hoenikker work most of his life?
(a) Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC.
(b) The Dyno Nobel Company.
(c) The General Forge and Foundry Company.
(d) The Putter and Stratton Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator describe the Episcopalian woman living in Chapter 3?

2. What is the Bokononist term for a team that does "God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing" in Chapter 1?

3. How many children did Dr. Felix Hoenikker have?

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

5. What is the book about that the narrator describes writing in Chapter 1?

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