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Cat's Cradle Flashcards

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What command does “Papa” give to Frank?

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He would be the next president of San Lorenzo, because he has science.

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What is Mona doing to the pilot?

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Slipped her sandals off, she was kneading, the instep of the flyer’s boot.

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Why, according to the taxi driver, does no one follow Bokonon?

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Because they would get the hook. If you feed, gave the man a place to sleep you would be hooked nobody wanted that.

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Who are the Hundred Martyrs to Democracy?

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The hundred men conscripted to fight in the war on Germany and Japan declared one hour after Peal Harbor was attacked.

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Why does the author “envy” the mosaicist?

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Because he said you can’t say a thing to him that he won’t turn inside out over.

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Who is the mosaicist?

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The person painting the photograph (Philip Castle).

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What, according to Castle, is a writer equal to?

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A drug-salesman.

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Why does Castle upset H. Lowe Crosby?

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Because he told him he was an Bokononist and screw him. Openly breaking the law.

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What are the two painters doing to each other in the room?

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They were pressing the soles of their bare feet together.

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Why is the author confused by their reaction to his entrance?

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He didn’t understand what they were doing illegal.

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What did you see occurring?

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The way they say “hy-u-o-ook-huh”.

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Why does It seem Philip Castle is so pessimistic and skeptical?

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The conversation they had before gave him the wrong impression of him.

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Who calls the author?

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Major General Franklin Hoenikker.

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Why does Philip’s father start giggling?

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The story he was telling about how he walked out with a flashlight beaming over all the dead’s body’s.

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Why is Stanley the first plump San Lorenzan the author had seen?

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Gets treated well.

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Why, according to Newt, do children grow up crazy?

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A Cat’s Cradle is full of X’s with no cat nor cradle at all in it.

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Who is Julian Castle’s hero?

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Jesus Christ.

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What is hell, according to Julian Castle (it is not the painting)?

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Black.

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Why does Angela want Newt to take art lessons?

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So he would know if he was doing something or not.

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What is ironic about Julian Castle (the saint)?

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The way he is a Bokonist but says he only talks about Jesus to keep his voice moving to say something important one day… meaningless.

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What does Castle do to Newt’s painting?

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Threw his painting off the cantilevered terrace.

22
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What does Angela say to Newt?

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Told him he had paint on his face. Wash your face.

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Why does “Papa” Monzano dislike Castle’s methods?

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They treat the last rites of the Bokononist Church to those who want them.

24
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What is Boko-maru?

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Foot business.

25
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What are the two things that make Castle’s hospital “run”?

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Aspirin and Boko-maru.

26
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What hasn’t the author caught onto yet?

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Everyone on San Lorenzo is a devout Bokononist, the hy-u-o-ook-kuh not with-standing.

27
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Why, according to Castle, was the religion of Bokononism invented?

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To make people less miserable.

28
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Why is Bokononism outlawed?

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His own idea asked to be outlawed in order to give the religious life of people more zest, more tang.

29
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Why does the “hook” work as a deterrent of crime?

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He’s seen in the chamber of horrors at Madame, tussaua’s more zest too, keep it running, out of fear.

30
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What happened about every six months?

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McCabe would announce triumphantly that Bokonon was surrounded by a ring of steel, which was remorselessly closing in.

31
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Why does McCabe and Bokonon’s drama make people happy?

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Great actors, they were employed full time as actors in a play everyone understood. They were half-angel, half-pirate.

32
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Why did both McCabe and Bokonon “go insane”?

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Half Angel whither away, McCabe knowing the agony of the tyrant and Bokonon knowing the agony of the saint.

33
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Why did this lead to using the hook?

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McCabe never went that crazy made serious effort to catch Bokonon it was inevitably (fatal, living the lie).

34
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Why, according to Angela, did the world mistreat her father?

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Certainly an injustice, not enough paid, he gave to much.

35
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What does Castle say happened to Newt’s painting (and his cigar butt)?

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It was Papa’s Monzano’s birthplace, incidentally, waterfall ends in a big stone bowl there. Being dried in the sun.

36
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Why does Angela want to cry?

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She thinks how much people are being paid an dhow much father got paid.

37
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How does Newt calm her down?

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Tells her to play her clarinet.

38
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How does Newt explain why Angela makes her marriage seem happy?

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The cat… and the cradle.

39
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What does the author shriek at Julian Castle after he hears her play her clarinet?

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Didn’t expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease.

40
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What is Castle’s advice?

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Just pretend you understand.

41
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Why didn’t Frank show up for supper?

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Keeping a vigil by “Papa’s” bed. Papa was dying in great pain.

42
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Why does Frank need to talk to the author?

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Wanted him to where he could get ahold of him at any time.

43
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What does Zah-mah-ki-bo mean?

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A Bokononist word meaning Fate–inevitable destiny.

44
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What is “Papa” dying of, according to Julian Castle? What made him collapse?

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Cancer and all the drugs he had been taken.

45
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How did “Papa” come to power?

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McCabe.

46
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Why is Dr. Schlichter von Koenigswald a member f the author’s karass?

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He will have saved more people in a small amount of time as he let due in year 3010 Holocaust.

47
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Who is the training camp named after?

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Jesus Christ.

48
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Why do soldiers show up at the house?

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To dig foxholes and machine-gun pits to protect the future president.

49
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Why does the author begin doubting his capacity for free will?

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Made him feel as though his own free will were as irrelevant as the free will of a piggy-wig arriving at the Chicago Stockyards. Push everywhere. Not knowing what’s going on.

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What happens when the author asked for The Books of Bokonon?

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Tells them they are no copies and they were filth.

51
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What is the myth centering on Borasisi and Pabu?

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Borasisi, the son, held Pabu, the moon, in his arms, and hoped that Pabu would bear him a fiery child.

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