White Noise Quizzes

White Noise Quiz 1

1 What is the name of the medicine Babette takes?
Nyodene D

Never Die

Dylar

Never Fear
2 What is the black cloud referred to as?
Nebulous

Airborne toxic event

Toxic vengeance

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

Heinrich

Bob

Wilder
4 What is the name of Jack's town?
Goldsmith

Blacksmith

Whitesmith

Springfield
5 Whom does Jack study?
Lincoln

Himself

Mussolini

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

Snakes

Rats

Bees
7 Whom does Murray want to study?
Elvis Presley

Marilyn Monroe

James Dean

Adolf Hitler
8 What kind of cars does Jack watch arrive as the novel opens?
Vans

Station wagons

SUVs

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

Mr. Grey

Joey Gray

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

Chinese restaurant

Abandoned Boy Scout camp

Bomb shelter
11 Whom does Babette want to die first between her and Jack?
Neither

Simultaneous

Jack

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

Winnie Richards

Denise

Murray
13 Who discovers the Dylar?
Steffie

Jack

Denise

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

SIMUVAC

WhiteNoise

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

Intelligence

Painting

Writing
16 Where are the Treadwells found?
The river

The mall

The highway

A movie theater
17 What does Jack let Wilder do when he won't stop crying?
Eat candy

Vomit

Go to sleep

Steer the car
18 Where does Heinrich's mother live?
On a commune

In the streets

On an ashram

In a co-op
19 What kind of glasses does Jack wear?
Flip-tops

Dark glasses

Bifocals

Contact lenses
20 What, among others, does Jack's German tutor teach?
Journal writing

Meteorology

Scuba-diving

Astrology
21 What, according to Jack, move "deathward"?
Stories

Songs

Plots

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

Frenchtown

Shantytown

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

A ski mask

A scarf

A parka
24 What does Babette wear almost exclusively by the end of the novel?
Nothing

A bathing suit

A business suit

Her sweatsuit
25 What does Murray pay to do on a prostitute?
Talk to her

Sing to her

Eat Chinese food off her

The Heimlich maneuver