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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 many siblings does Bokonon have?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.
2. What does Dr. Breed say that "pure research men" work on in Chapter 21?
(a) "What they are told to research."
(b) "What they are paid to research."
(c) "Facts that will help humanity."
(d) "What fascinates them."
3. Where was Dr. Felix Hoenikker when he died?
(a) New York.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) Atlantic City.
4. What is the title of Chapter 29?
(a) "Gone, but Not Forgotten."
(b) "The Marines March On."
(c) "End of the World Delight."
(d) "No More Mud."
5. What is the married name of Newt's sister, as revealed in his letter in Chapter 5?
(a) Mrs. J. Smith Beacon.
(b) Mrs. Harrison C. Conners.
(c) Mrs. Newton B. Anderson.
(d) Mrs. Quincy Rudolph.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the title of Chapter 10?
2. When does Dr. Breed describe the man being hung that had killed 26 people in Chapter 13?
3. What is Dr. Breed's first name?
4. What was the name of the man that Dr. Breed describes as having been executed for committing 26 murders in Chapter 13?
5. Whom is John sent to write an article about in San Lorenzo in Chapter 40?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the Bokononist warnings that the narrator relates to the reader in Chapter 4?
2. What statements does the author make about nihilism in Chapter 36?
3. How does fate bring the narrator to San Lorenzo?
4. How is the theory of "Dynamic Tension" described in Chapter 47?
5. What statement do you think that Vonnegut is making in regards to politics and science in Cat's Cradle?
6. What irony can be found in Dr. Breed's discussions of superstition in Chapters 16-18?
7. What is the significance of the literary/religious allusion in the opening of Chapter 1?
8. How does Bokononism influence the language style of the novel?
9. How is the character of Sherman Krebbs used as a means to satire in the novel?
10. What aspects of Dr. Hoenikker's character are revealed through Dr. Breed's stories of him in Chapter 14?
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