Cloud Atlas Quizzes

Cloud Atlas Quiz 1

1 I[Cloud Atlas] is compose of how many interconnected stories?
5

8

6

7
2 Who does Ewing meet on a beach collecting teeth at the beginning of I[The Pacific Journals of Adam Ewing]?
Autua

Dr. Goose

Mr. Wagstaff

Tilda
3 Why is Ewing on the Chatman Islands?
he is on vacation

He is settling an estate for a client

He is sick adn needs medical attention

He is waiting for the I[Prophetess] to be repaired
4 Who is being flogged by the Moriori on the Chatman Islands?
Autua

Rafael

Daniel

Finbar
5 The Moriori are enslaved by the ______.
Maori

Polynesians

Christian missions

White settlers
6 Define I[mana] according to the text.
Moriori definition for a soul

Name of a comet

Jewelry worn by Mrs. Haddox

A food source popular in the South Pacific
7 Ewing dubs his small cabin aboard the ship his ______.
matchbox

coffin

box

casket
8 What ailment does Goose diagnose Ewing with?
tuberculosis

cancer

a parasite

syphillis
9 Where is Cape Nazareth?
California

Polynesia

Hawaii

Spain
10 Why is Captain Molyneux eager to establish contact with Mr. Horrox and the missions?
To be cleansed of his sins

To buy land

To set up a trade agreement between them

To seek the hand of Horrox’s oldest daughter in marriage
11 What addictive product is introduced to the Native Polynesians is an insentive to work for the missionary?
cocaine

tabacco

alcohol

marijuana
12 What does Ewing call his ailment?
demon

pest

ant

worm
13 Mr. Horrox equates God to what component of modern civilization?
progress

art

science

music
14 Who subscribes to the philosophy “the weak are meat the strong do eat?”
Horrox

Goose

Ewing

Wagstaff
15 Why does Rafael kill himself?
He was tricked into it

He wanted to punish Ewing for ignoring him

He was sexually abused over a long period of time

He had been caught stealing
16 Why does Goose poison Ewing?
for fun

revenge

to steal his money

out of pity
17 To whom does Robert Frobisher write in the I[Letters of Zedelghem]?
To his future self

Adrian, his brother

Rufus Sixsmith

Vyvyan Ayrs
18 Why does Frobisher leave London?
To escape his debt collectors

To go on an adventure

to follow his brother to war

to take care of his mother
19 In what war did Adrian Frobisher die
Irish War for Independence

Balkan War

WWII

WWI
20 Who gives Frobisher a bicycle once he reaches Bruges?
Sixsmith

a valet

Eva

a police officer
21 Of Ayrs household, who distrusts Frobisher most upon his arrival?
Jocasta

the valet

Ayrs

Eva
22 What book does Frobisher ask Sixsmith to find in London, as his copy is incomplete?
“The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing”

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“A Passage to India”

“The Great Gatsby”
23 Frobisher steals what items from Ayrs to sell?
books

china

flatware

pistols
24 Who does Frobisher prostitute himself out to for extra money?
Eva

Jocasta

Otto Jansch

Sixsmith
25 Where does Jocasta hide when Ayrs interrupts her lovemaking with Frobisher?
in the closet

behind the door

under the bed covers

behind the chair