White Noise Quizzes

White Noise Quiz 1

1 What is the name of the medicine Babette takes?
Never Die

Dylar

Never Fear

Nyodene D
2 What is the black cloud referred to as?
Nebulous

Toxic vengeance

Airborne toxic event

Heavy mass
3 Who is Jack's only son?
Wilder

Heinrich

Bee

Bob
4 What is the name of Jack's town?
Blacksmith

Whitesmith

Springfield

Goldsmith
5 Whom does Jack study?
Mussolini

Lincoln

Hitler

Himself
6 What does Orest sit in a cage full of?
Bats

Snakes

Rats

Bees
7 Whom does Murray want to study?
Elvis Presley

James Dean

Adolf Hitler

Marilyn Monroe
8 What kind of cars does Jack watch arrive as the novel opens?
Sports cars

Station wagons

Vans

SUVs
9 What is Mr. Gray's real name?
Willie Mink

Joey Gray

Mr. Grey

Alfonse Stompanato
10 Where does the family first head in the evacuation?
Abandoned Boy Scout camp

Chinese restaurant

They stay in the house

Bomb shelter
11 Whom does Babette want to die first between her and Jack?
Simultaneous

Neither

Jack

Herself
12 Who tells Jack about the properties of Dylar?
Heinrich

Denise

Winnie Richards

Murray
13 Who discovers the Dylar?
Steffie

Denise

Jack

Wilder
14 What is the name for the company that makes the simulated evacuations?
WhiteNoise

Simulacra

SIMUVAC

Simulations
15 To what field are most of Jack's ex-wives somehow related?
Business

Painting

Intelligence

Writing
16 Where are the Treadwells found?
A movie theater

The highway

The mall

The river
17 What does Jack let Wilder do when he won't stop crying?
Go to sleep

Eat candy

Vomit

Steer the car
18 Where does Heinrich's mother live?
In a co-op

On a commune

In the streets

On an ashram
19 What kind of glasses does Jack wear?
Bifocals

Dark glasses

Contact lenses

Flip-tops
20 What, among others, does Jack's German tutor teach?
Astrology

Meteorology

Scuba-diving

Journal writing
21 What, according to Jack, move "deathward"?
Stories

Drawings

Plots

Songs
22 In what ethnic neighborhood is Mink's motel located?
Germantown

Englishtown

Frenchtown

Shantytown
23 What did Babette always wear to her meetings with Mink?
Gloves

A parka

A scarf

A ski mask
24 What does Babette wear almost exclusively by the end of the novel?
Her sweatsuit

A business suit

A bathing suit

Nothing
25 What does Murray pay to do on a prostitute?
Eat Chinese food off her

Talk to her

The Heimlich maneuver

Sing to her