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White Noise

Don DeLillo

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1. At what time of year does the novel open?

(A) Spring break

(B) New Year's Eve

(C) First day of spring

(D) Start of a new school year

2. What is Jack Gladney the chairman of?

(A) Microbiology

(B) Olympic history

(C) Nazi studies

(D) Hitler studies

3. What are Jack's fake initials?

(A) J. O. G

(B) J. A.G.

(C) J. A. K

(D) J. F. K.

4. What is the name of the drug behind the airborne toxic event?

(A) Nodie Derivative

(B) Nyodene Derivative

(C) Neverdie Derivative

(D) Dienow Derivative

5. Who does Murray want to create an academic department around?

(A) John F. Kennedy

(B) Albert Einstein

(C) Elvis Presley

(D) James Dean

6. What does Murray equate with the Tibetan holding place for dead souls?

(A) Television

(B) Aerobics

(C) Shopping

(D) The supermarket

7. What class does Babette teach?

(A) Posture

(B) Adult literacy

(C) Sleeping

(D) Tax evasion

8. What field are all of Jack's wives somehow involved in?

(A) Defense contractors

(B) Intelligence

(C) Literary criticism

(D) Sports writing

9. What fear does Dylar relieve?

(A) Fear of flying

(B) Fear of being in a crowded room

(C) Fear of talking in public

(D) Fear of dying

10. Who gives Jack a loaded gun?

(A) Wilder

(B) Murray

(C) Vernon Dickey

(D) Heinrich

11. What does SIMUVAC stand for?

(A) Simulated Vacation

(B) Simplified Evacuation

(C) Simulated Evacuation

(D) Simulated Vaccination

12. Which one of the following is not a symptom of exposure to Nyodene Derivative?

(A) Déj vu

(B) Anxiety attacks

(C) Miscarriages

(D) Sweaty palms

13. What city is everyone evacuated to during the airborne toxic event?

(A) Blacksmith

(B) Iron City

(C) Germantown

(D) Detroit

14. What does Murray suggest is one way of relieving the fear of dying?

(A) Killing

(B) Dieting

(C) Playing dead

(D) Exercising

15. What year does Jack come up with his initials?

(A) 1967

(B) 1968

(C) 1969

(D) 1970

16. Which one of the children provides a special comfort to Jack and Babette?

(A) Bee

(B) Denise

(C) Steffie

(D) Wilder

17. What does Murray encourage everyone to be more like?

(A) Children

(B) The elderly

(C) Animals

(D) The insane

18. Why does Wilder start crying for seven hours?

(A) He loses his favorite toy

(B) No one knows

(C) Jack hits him

(D) He's frightened

19. What part of town is Willie Mink living in?

(A) Little Italy

(B) Chinatown

(C) Downtown

(D) Germantown

20. Why is Jack so afraid of plots?

(A) They remind him of his ex-wives

(B) They're too complicated

(C) They always end in death

(D) He doesn't understand them

21. Why does Jack study Hitler?

(A) Because he likes his mustache

(B) To understand the nature of evil

(C) To protect himself from dying

(D) To gain fame

22. What does Orest Mercator want to set a world record for?

(A) Sit in a cage with snakes

(B) Run a marathon

(C) Fight toxic spills

(D) Wrestle an alligator

23. What does Denise see her mother doing?

(A) Having an affair

(B) Cheating on her diet

(C) Taking pills

(D) Crying

24. What cause the airborne toxic event?

(A) A train wreck

(B) A factory explosion

(C) A plane crash

(D) A terrorist attack

25. What is Jack's greatest fear?

(A) Nuclear war

(B) Losing his job

(C) Cancer

(D) Death

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