White noise book Flashcards
What college does Jack teach at
College-on-the-hill
What is Jack’s last name?
Gladney
How many years has Jack witnessed the return of students?
21 years
What is unique about Jack’s town?
There is an insane asylum
What is Jack the chairman of?
Hitler Studies
When did Jack invent Hitler Studies?
1968
What color hair does Babette have?
dirty blonde
Who does Babette read to?
Old Man Treadwell
What does Babette do for a job?
Teaches a course in adult education
Who are Jack and Babette’s children?
Heinrich, Wilder, Denise, Steffie
What goes off during lunch in chapter 2?
The smoke alarm
Who is the head of Jack’s department?
Alfonse (Fast Food) Stompanato
What does Hitler share a building with?
Popular Culture department
What is the popular culture department known as?
American environments
What did Murray Jay Siskind used to do?
former sportswriter
What is the town called?
Blacksmith
who does Murray Jay Siskind want to study?
Elvis Presley
Where does Murray Jay Siskind live?
a rooming house
Where do Jack and Murray travel to?
the Most Photographed Barn in America
what is powerful about the Most Photographed Barn in America?
its aura
What does Babette do at the high school?
run up and down the stadium steps
What is the question that Jack always asks?
who will die first?
What does Jack’s family do on Friday nights?
watch TV
What did Jack change his name to so people would take him more seriously?
J.A.K Gladney
What is Jack’s fear?
his life is moving too fast
What does Murray find comforting?
the supermarket
What is unique about Heinrich’s appearence?
He has a receding hair line
What does Babette teach twice a week?
a posture class for the elderly
What does Jack find instead of an inappropriate magazine?
a family photo album
Who teaches Jack German?
Howard Dunlop
Where does Howard Dunlop live?
at the boarding house
What is Murray reading when Jack invited him to dinner?
American Transvestite
What does Murray wear?
corduroy
Why is Denise and Steffie’s grade school evacuated?
children and teachers are exhibiting mysterious symptoms like headaches, eye irritations, and the taste of metal in their mouths
what are The inspectors’ suits made out of?
Mylex
What is Denise reading?
Physician’s Desk Reference
What does Murray talk about the second time in the grocery store?
Tibetan philosophy of death
Who does Heinrich play chess with?
Tommy Roy Foster
why did Tommy Roy Foster kill?
to go down in history
Where does Heinrich’s mother live?
ashram
what time does Jack wake up in the middle of the night?
3:51
Who loves the smell of burnt toast?
Steffie
How old is Jack turning?
51
What else does Dunlop teach?
Greek, Latin, sailing, and meteorology
Why does Dunlop study weather?
After his mother’s death, he found it comforting
In chapter 12 who is at Jack’s house when he comes back from his lesson?
Bob Pardee, Denise’s father and Babette’s ex-husband,
Who goes missing in chapter 12?
Old Man Treadwell and his older sister
How is it discovered that Treadwell and his sister are missing?
Babette cannot find them when she goes to read to him
Where do Jack and Babette go before they meet Bob at the donut shop?
They file a police report
Where are the Treadwells discovered?
The shopping mall
How long had the Treadwells been missing?
4 days
Who do the police call to help them find the Treadwells?
a psychic named Adele T.
Who finds the drug Babette is supposedly taking?
Denise
What is the drug Babette is taking called?
Dylar
Why did Jack name Heinrich, Heinrich?
he thought the name had an air of authority and that Heinrich was born shortly after Jack started Hitler studies.
What do Jack, Steffie and Denise do together in ch 13?
go through the German-English dictionary together, looking for words that are similar in both languages.
What is there footage on on TV in ch 13?
a plane crash
Why is Murrary worried about getting the Elvis job?
Someone else is more qualified
Why is Dimitros Cotsakis more qualified to teach about Elivs?
He interviewed Presley’s family immediately following Elvis’s death and has already appeared on television as an expert on the Elvis phenomenon.
What does Jack offer to do for Murray?
stop by Murray’s lecture to lend his own influence and prestige to Murray’s campaign.
Who does Jack eat lunch with?
The New York émigrés
What do Murray and Jack argue about?
If Hitler of Elivs loved their mother more
Why does Jack and Babette take Wildner to the doctor?
He wont stop crying
Where does the family take a trip to?
Mid-Village Mall
What does denise do on the drive to the mall?
tries to confront Babette about dylar
where does jack go at the mall?
the hardware store
Who does Jack run into at the mall?
Eric Massingale, who teaches computers at the College-on-the-Hill.
Who shows up at the airport instead of Bee?
Her mother, Tweedy Browner
Where is Bee flying in from?
Indonesia
What does Babette think Tweedy’s problem really is?
Tweedy doesn’t know who she is.
Where does Jack stop on his way back from the airport?
a graveyard
How does Mr. Treadwell’s sister, Gladys die?
“a lingering dread,”
What does Jack do when he reads obituaries?
compares the age of the deceased to his own age
Who appears on TV in chapter 20?
Babette
What is the toxic substance in the air in chapter 21?
Nyodene Derivative, or Nyodene D.
where does the family go to first during the toxic event?
abandoned Boy Scout camp
How does Jack expose himself to Nyodene D?
He puts gas in the car
What does SIMUVAC stand for?
Simulated Evacuation
How long does Nyodene D. live in the system?
30 years
What does Murray do to one of the prostitutes?
Performs the Heimlich maneuver
What does Steffie mutter in her sleep
“Toyota Celica”
Where is the second place the family goes during the toxic event?
an abandoned karate studio
How long is the family kept away from their home?
9 days
how does Dimitros Costakis die?
He drowns in the ocean off Malibu
What have become better since the toxic event?
sunsets
What does Babette want to start a class on?
Eating and drinking
What is the main symptom of the toxic event?
déjà vu
Where does Jack find the dylar?
taped to the bottom of the bathroom radiator.
What is Heinrich’s friend, Orest Mercator, trying to do?
break the Guinness record for sitting in a cage full of poisonous snakes
Who does Jack take a pill of Dylar to?
Winnie Richards, a brilliant young neurochemist at the College-on-the-Hill
How long does it take Winnie to analysis the Dyalr?
48 hours
What kind of drug is Dylar?
psychopharmaceutical
How did Babette find Mr. Gray
an ad in the newspaper
What did Babette do in order to take dylar?
slept with Mr. Gray
Why does Babette take dylar?
to suppress her fear of death
Does Dylar work for Babette?
No
who is playing the role of a victim in the SIMUVAC disaster simulation?
Steffie
Who else is participating in the simulation?
Heinrich and Orest Mercator
Who steals the Dylar and refuses to give it back?
Denise
Why can’t seffie visit her mother in Mexico City for Easter?
She volunteered for another simulation at that time
How many times did Jack marry Steffie’s mother?
twice
What does Steffie’s mother, Dana Breedlove, do?
a secret agent who also reviewed fiction for the CIA—long novels with embedded codes
What makes Babette unique?
She shares everything/is open with Jack
What is Murray teaching a seminar on?
car crashes
What does Jack find at one of his German lessons?
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Why does Babette refuse to tell Jack Mr. Grays real name?
she’s afraid he wants to kill Mr. Gray
What are the instructions at the beginning of chapter 31 for?
paying a cable bill.
When the family is eating in the car, jack reveals there has been sightings of what?
UFOs
Who does Jack receive a postcard from?
Mary Alice, his eldest child with Dana Breedlove.
What does Murray think about Howard Dunlop?
he thinks Howard is the type of man who would find dead bodies erotic
What causes Jack to stop taking German?
Murray’s comment
What burns down?
The insane asylum
Who does Wilder find sitting in the family’s backyard?
Babette’s father, Vernon Dickey
What does Vernon have?
a bad smokers cough
What does Vernon give Jack?
a german made loaded gun
What is the only thing Vernon tells Babette to worry about?
his car
What seems off at Jack’s doctor’s appointment?
his potassium levels
Where does the doctor tell Jack to go?
Autumn Harvest Farms—where they have all of the latest, gleaming instruments—for further tests.
Where does Jack take Heinrich and Orest Mercator ?
out to dinner
What happens after A SIMUVAC simulation of a noxious odor?
a few days later, a real noxious odor settles over the town
How does Jack respond to a call from his ex-wife Janet, (Mother Devi), asking if Heinrich can come and visit her. She tells him she wants only to talk in a spirit of peace and mutual affinity?
he hangs up
What does Jack do at The Hitler conference?
hides in his office
What does Jack deny at the Autumn Harvest Farms?
his exposure to Nyodene Derivative
Why does Murray think Jack studies Hitler?
Jack turned to Hitler to save himself from death, to lose himself in Hitler’s power and aura, because “Hitler is larger than death.”
What happens to Orest Mercator?
He is bit 4 times in the first 4 minutes of his snake attempt
What is Mr. Gray’s real name?
Willie Mink
Where does Willie Mink live?
a motel room in Germantown
Where does Willie Mink live?
Roadway Motel in Germantown
What is Jack’s plan for Willie?
He plans to find Willie Mink, shoot him three times in the abdomen, fake a suicide note, steal some Dylar, and then drive back to Blacksmith.
Where does Willie Shoot Jack?
He shoots him in the wrist
