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Cat's Cradle ch 101-120

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who writes Jonah's inaugural speech?

a)

Jonah

b)

Bokonon

c)

Julian Castle

d)

Frank Hoenikker

2.

The rum at the inaugural party smelled like...

a)

sweet coconut

b)

sugar

c)

acetone

d)

Pepsi

e)

fish

3.

Which of the following is not one of the cardboard enemies floating in the sea ready to be bombed by the San Lorenzan Air Force?

a)

Fidel Castro

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Karl Marx

d)

Mao Zedong

e)

Winston Churchill

4.

Who was the only one drinking the rum?

a)

Dr. Vox Humana

b)

H. Lowe Crosby

c)

Newt Hoenikker

d)

the narrator/Jonah

e)

Ambassador Minton

5.

Did the narrator agree to participate in a writer's strike?

a)

Yes

b)

No

6.

According to Castle, what are the people of San Lorenzo interested in?

a)

Fishing

b)

Fornication

c)

Bokononism

d)

Bicycles

e)

Industrialization

7.

How did "Papa" die?

a)

cancer

b)

cyanide

c)

sulfathiazole

d)

ice-9

e)

albatross meat

8.

Who was the second person to die from the ice-9?

a)

Dr. Von Koenigswald

b)

The narrator

c)

one of "Papa's" guards

d)

Frank

e)

Newt

9.

What did Newt do when he saw "Papa" and Dr. Von Koenigswald in death?

a)

blamed the others

b)

laughed

c)

threw up

d)

fainted

e)

turned and walked out

10.

What happened to the Hoenikker's dog?

a)

it ran away

b)

it died after licking ice-9

c)

they didn't have a dog

d)

the father lost it on a walk

e)

Angela made them get rid of it

11.

Why did Frank give the ice-9 to "Papa"?

a)

he was under duress

b)

it was stolen from him

c)

to win Mona

d)

to get a job

e)

he did not give him the ice-9

12.

How does Bokonon answer this question? "What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?"

a)

nothing

b)

lies

c)

continued hope

d)

strife

e)

love

13.

What was needed to clean up the ice-9 in "Papa's" room?

a)

brooms and dustpans

b)

blowtorch

c)

hot plate

d)

buckets

e)

all of the above

14.

On the day that Felix Hoenikker died, what was he doing in the kitchen?

a)

making a Christmas dinner for the children

b)

washing the dishes

c)

experimenting with ice-9

d)

making a sandwich

e)

boiling water for tea

15.

Who said the following? "The reason I say 'gold mesh' is that it reminded me right away of Mother's reticule, of how the reticule felt"

a)

Felix Hoenikker

b)

Angela Hoenikker

c)

Frank Hoenikker

d)

Newt Hoenikker

e)

Emily Hoenikker

16.

What does the word reticule mean? "The reason I say 'gold mesh' is that it reminded me right away of Mother's reticule, of how the reticule felt"

a)

jewlery

b)

gloves

c)

a fine lace collar

d)

a dish cloth

e)

a little evening bag

17.

The Hoenikker children put the dead Labrador in the oven.

a)

true

b)

false

18.

What did Horlick Minton do with the laurel wreath?

a)

throw it into the ocean

b)

burn in on the funeral pyre

c)

present it to the new president

d)

hang it on the "hook"

e)

place it on "Papa's" grave

19.

The Minton's perished together.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

What happened to the Mintons in chapter 117?

a)

they fell into the sea

b)

they consumed ice-9 together

c)

an airplane crashed causing the part of the castle that they were standing on to fall

d)

they waved goodbye to the others as they fell

e)

the held hands as they fell

21.

The sky was filled with worms. The worms were tornadoes. What literary device is used in the quote from the novel.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

22.

It buzzed like bees. What literary device is used in the quote from the novel.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

23.

(The tornado)...it swayed. With obscene peristalsis, it ingested air. What literary device is used in the quote from the novel.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

24.

What happened when "Papa's" body fell into the sea?

a)

Everyone was angry that they didn't know he had died

b)

The narrator became president

c)

He fell on the cardboard cut out of Hitler

d)

The sea turned solid

e)

nothing

25.

Where did the narrator and Mona go after the destruction of the castle?

a)

down a manhole cover

b)

into the oubilette

c)

into papa's bomb shelter

d)

all of these

26.

What was in the bomb shelter?

a)

two twin beds

b)

a set of the books of Bokonon

c)

water

d)

food

e)

all of the above