White Noise Quizzes

White Noise Quiz 1

By Teddy Wayne · Last reviewed April 04, 2002

1 What is the name of the medicine Babette takes?

Dylar

Never Die

Never Fear

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

Heavy mass

Nebulous

Toxic vengeance

Airborne toxic event
3 Who is Jack's only son?

Heinrich

Bob

Wilder

Bee
4 What is the name of Jack's town?

Blacksmith

Whitesmith

Springfield

Goldsmith
5 Whom does Jack study?

Lincoln

Mussolini

Himself

Hitler
6 What does Orest sit in a cage full of?

Snakes

Rats

Bees

Bats
7 Whom does Murray want to study?

Adolf Hitler

James Dean

Elvis Presley

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

SUVs

Vans

Station wagons

Sports cars
9 What is Mr. Gray's real name?

Joey Gray

Alfonse Stompanato

Mr. Grey

Willie Mink
10 Where does the family first head in the evacuation?

Bomb shelter

Abandoned Boy Scout camp

They stay in the house

Chinese restaurant
11 Whom does Babette want to die first between her and Jack?

Jack

Neither

Herself

Simultaneous
12 Who tells Jack about the properties of Dylar?

Heinrich

Winnie Richards

Murray

Denise
13 Who discovers the Dylar?

Jack

Denise

Steffie

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

Simulations

WhiteNoise

SIMUVAC

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

Writing

Painting

Intelligence

Business
16 Where are the Treadwells found?

The river

The mall

A movie theater

The highway
17 What does Jack let Wilder do when he won't stop crying?

Steer the car

Vomit

Eat candy

Go to sleep
18 Where does Heinrich's mother live?

On an ashram

On a commune

In a co-op

In the streets
19 What kind of glasses does Jack wear?

Contact lenses

Flip-tops

Dark glasses

Bifocals
20 What, among others, does Jack's German tutor teach?

Astrology

Journal writing

Scuba-diving

Meteorology
21 What, according to Jack, move "deathward"?

Stories

Drawings

Songs

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

Englishtown

Shantytown

Germantown

Frenchtown
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

Nothing

A business suit

A bathing suit
25 What does Murray pay to do on a prostitute?

The Heimlich maneuver

Eat Chinese food off her

Sing to her

Talk to her