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Cat's Cradle ch 31-45

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is this quote attributed to? "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

a)

Dr. Breed

b)

Bokonon

c)

Felix Hoenikker

d)

Miss Foust

2.

Who owned the tombstone saleroom?

a)

Marvin Breed, Dr. Breed's brother

b)

Avram Breed, Dr. Breed's son

c)

The taxi driver

d)

Dr. Felix Hoenikker's son

3.

How did the Hoenikker children pay for Emily Hoenikker's monument?

a)

they saved up for a year

b)

They inherited money from Emily's will

c)

They sold some property on Cape Cod

d)

the Nobel Prize money earned by their father

4.

What word best describes the tombstone store owner's feelings about Emily Hoenikker's fate.

a)

apathetic

b)

encouraged

c)

confused

d)

Bitter

5.

Which word means "a sudden, very personal shove in the direction of Bokononism? "

a)

Bokononaphobia

b)

karass

c)

vin-dit

d)

duprass

6.

Which of the following is NOT true of the Hoenikker children?

a)

Frank made models and was arrested

b)

Angela plays the clarinet and is over 6 feet tall

c)

Newt married a Russian dancer and flunked out of pre-med

d)

None of the children ever married

7.

Where did the narrator stop after the tombstone showroom?

a)

the hobby shop that Frank used to work at

b)

the hotel

c)

a bar

d)

the cemetery where Emily was buried

8.

Jack's (of Jack's hobby shop) displayed all of the following feelings about Frank except...

a)

ambiguous

b)

impressed

c)

regretful

d)

loyal

9.

Why did the narrator's second wife leave him?

a)

She was "finding herself"

b)

He cheated on her

c)

She hated the idea of Boknonon

d)

he was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

10.

Sherman Krebbs did all of the following to the narrator's apartment while he was away except...

a)

wrote a poem in excrement on the kitchen floor

b)

made $300 in long distance calls

c)

shredded the curtains

d)

killed his sweet cat

e)

set fire to the couch

11.

How did the narrator find out that Frank Hoenikker is still alive?

a)

He saw him in a hobby shop

b)

He read about it in the newspaper

c)

Newt called him and told him

d)

He saw him in a train

12.

All of the following are true of San Lorenzo except...

a)

population 150,000

b)

capital city is Bolivar

c)

exports are sugar, coffee, bananas, indigo and handcrafted novelties

d)

unchallenged barracuda capital of the world

e)

it is the size of Delaware

13.

What is the meaning of Fata Morgana?

a)

a specialty cheese

b)

a lake on the island of San Lorenzo

c)

A mirage named after Morgan le Fay

d)

A fat mortgage

14.

Who did the narrator fall in love with?

a)

Philip Castle

b)

Mona Aamons Nonzano

c)

Miss Foust

d)

Barbara Hutton

15.

Why did the narrator go to San Lorenzo?

a)

He wanted to meet the beautiful girl that he saw in the magazine

b)

He was sent to interview "Papa" Monzano

c)

He wanted to interview Frank Hoenikker

d)

He was sent to inteview Julian Castle

16.

What is a duprass?

a)

a karass composed of only two people

b)

a double wide behind

c)

the title of the ambassador to San Lorenzo

d)

A chemical company on the island

17.

What is a Hoosier?

a)

A granfalloon

b)

a person who disrupts another person from believing in a theory

c)

A person from Indiana

d)

a false karass

18.

All of the following are examples of a granfalloon except...

a)

a spelling bee

b)

the daughters of the American Revolution

c)

General electric company

d)

any nation anywhere

e)

people from Indiana

19.

Mr. H Lowe Crosby believed that dictatorships were a good thing.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

There is a saloon on the airplane.

a)

true

b)

false