Did You Really Read It?

In 1963, Kurt Vonnegut wrote the book Cat's Cradle. This is one of the greatest authors of all time and other works of his include 'Breakfast of Champions' and 'Timequake.' This quiz I have spent the last hour and a half composing though, focuses on Cat's Cradle and is an extreamly detailed quiz to see if you have accually read (and comprehended) the text...or if you and your buddy Spark Notes had a late romantic escapade.

So, in honnor or the late Kurt Vonnegut (for he has just recently passed away), please complete this quiz and find out the answer to our question: Did you Read the Book??!?!

What is your age?
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18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
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What is your gender?
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1. What is the Main Character's initial goal in the beginning of the book?
To win a writing contest and also win the hand of the lovely Mona
To create a new horrendous device that would wipe out the world
To write a book depicting the human reaction of the day the Atomic bomb was dropped
He didn't have a goal; things just happened as they did
2. Who is the "Father of the Bomb?"
Dr. Breed
Dr. Hoenikker
Newton Hoenikker
John (the main guy)
Bokonon
3. List his children from oldest to youngest.
Angela, Frank, Newton
Angela, Newton, Frank
Newton, Angela, Frank
Newton, Frank, Angela
Frank, Newton, Angela
Frank, Angela, Newton
4. What was peculiar about Newton?
He is very tall
He is very short
He is very fat
He is very thin
He is very smart
He is very dumb
5. What is the best description of Angela?
Blonde bombshell
Average looking, but with striking green eyes
Very heavy and obnoxious but pretty
Tall, gawky, blonde hair and horse-faced
Very intellectual but ugly beyond belief
6. Where is Frank?
Dead.
Currently leading a political party in Maryland.
At his house in Indiana raising a family.
Entertaining at a Tranvestite bar in NYC
No one knows.
7. Where did Dr. Felix Hoenikker Die?
At his summer home, facing the sea
In Hiroshima, when the bomb was dropped
In a Hospital
He was alive the whole book.
8. What is Ice-nine?
Good for cooling Kool-Aid.
An ointment that you put on frostbite to cure it.
A chemical that realigns the molecules in ice so it has a higher melting point.
A chemical that freezes anything.
The main component of the Atomic Bomb
9. What is the name of the island country our main character finds himself headed to
Del Sol Laurence
Sol Loren
San Laurence Oh
San Lorenzo
Son Lorenso
10. Why did he travel to San Lorenzo in the first place?
He murdered someone and needed to escape.
He had discovered that Frank Hoenikker held a high standing posistion there and he wished to interview him.
Our main character is rich and does as he pleases.
He was seeking the hand of Mona, who resides in San Lorenzo
He was assigned by a magazine to do a story in San Lorenzo
11. What is a Hoosier?
Someone who likes Owls.
An instrument similar to a clarinet
What the islanders call the "xylophone"
Someone from Indiana.
This has nothing to do with the book.
12. By what means did John reach san Lorenzo?
By plane
By boat
By swimming
By manatee
13. Who did John meet up with on the plane?
Some fellow Hoosiers.
a former black-listed couple who will be ambassadors in San Lorenzo .
a midget.
A bicycle-company owner.
All of the above.
14. What religious leader do the islanders follow?
Jesus
Buddha
Gahndi
Bokonon
Joseph Smith
The Pope
15. How do the islanders practice their religion?
Every 4 hours the entire island chants a pledge of loyalty to their leader
They meet twice a week in large cathedrals
They meet once a week; it's required by law
None of them care about the religion much
In extreme secrecy; it is against the law to practice it
16. What is the punishment for being caught practicing Bokonistic rituals?
It's required; why would there be punishments?
Get punched in the gut.
Get hanged.
Face the Guillotine.
Go on "The Hook."
Get forced to jump off the cliffs into the jagged abyss of the sea.
17. What is boko-maru?
Sexual intercourse
yoga
killing people
a good tasty snack
placing the soles of your feet together with someone
a cat the islanders hold as sacred
18. According to Bokonistic theory, What is man?
Man is mud
No more than a speck of dust
Ths only thing that could ever be held sacred
What man is: bones, flesh, organs.
Answers 1 and 3.
19. What ended the earth?
A sudden meteror shower enflamed everything and hell was on earth as the incineration raged on.
The Japaneese finally retaliated to Hiroshima and set off their own atomic bombs
An earthquake struck and oceans swelled up over every continent
Some Ice-Nine got dumped into the ocean and everything froze.
Everything happened at once; it was the Apocalypse
20. How many islanders survived?
None. Everything got destroyed past oblivion duhhh.
The book never tells you.
All of them. They had hid in a cave and now have to repopulate the earth.
Most of them, but then they killed themselves anyways.
One or Two Survive but then fall off a cliff in the last paragraph, completely ruining any chance for the hope of future humanity.

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