The Sound Machine Quizzes

The Sound Machine Quiz 1

1 Who narrates "The Sound Machine"?
Klausner

Mrs. Saunders

An unnamed third-person narrator

The doctor
2 Who wrote "The Sound Machine"?
Roald Dahl

The doctor

Klausner

An unnamed narrator
3 What genre is "The Sound Machine"?
Play

Comics

Short story

Novel
4 Which is not a major theme in "The Sound Machine"?
Genius vs. Madness

Poverty

Obsession

The Personification of Plants
5 Who is the story's protagonist?
Klausner

The doctor

Mrs. Saunders

Klausner's wife
6 Where is Klausner's workshop?
A prison yard

The Doctor's shed

His garden shed

A mental hospital
7 What is Klausner's profession?
Railroad engineer

Something to do with sound that is never clearly specified

Botanist

Musician
8 What does the narrator liken the shape of the sound machine to?
A child's coffin

A clown's shoebox

An artillery case

A briefcase
9 What does Klausner do while tinkering with the wires in his box?
Cry

Listen to jazz

Talk softly to himself

Shout with his neighbor
10 Who comes to visit Klausner in his workshop?
The doctor

A police officer

Klausner's father

Mrs. Saunders
11 What is the doctor's name?
Stone

Ellis

Johnson

Scott
12 What part of Klausner's body does the doctor ask about?
Eyes

Ears

Throat

Teeth
13 What is the mood in the workshop when the doctor asks Klausner about his box?
Drab

Airy

Tense

Haunting
14 How does Klausner initially respond when asked about the box?
Thrilled someone asked

Bouncing off the walls with manic energy

Reluctant to speak about it

He yawns as if it is boring
15 What is the likely unsaid reason the doctor checks up on Klausner?
He is Klausner's father

He has a crush on Klausner

He is Klausner's brother

He is monitoring Klausner's mental health
16 What is the purpose of Klausner's box?
To detect sounds so high- or low-pitched the human ear can't hear them

To listen to what plants are feeling

To pick up alien radio frequencies

To make toast on a timer every morning
17 What does Klausner say is the upper limit of the human hearing range?
20,000 vibrations a second

15,000 vibrations a second

He never says a number

5,000 vibrations a second
18 How high does Klausner believe notes go above human hearing range?
A few semitones

Not at all higher

20 kHz higher

Infinitely higher
19 What does the doctor believe there is "an immeasurable distance" between?
Forces of good and evil

Klausner's body and mind

Reality and fantasy

Hither and yon
20 How does Klausner's sound machine make the inaudible audible?
It turns high vibrations into lower-pitched tones

It never works

It has a very large microphone

None of these
21 What example does Klausner give for animals being able to hear different things than humans?
A baby dove's song

A dog whistle

The music of the spheres

An infrasonic device
22 Where does Klausner conduct his first test?
His back garden

His workshop

The doctor's office

The park
23 What does "bespectacled" mean?
Full of acne

Covered in spots

Sizzling hot

Wearing eyeglasses
24 Who is Klausner's neighbor?
Mrs. Saunders

His ex-wife

The doctor

His brother
25 What does Klausner hear make a shriek?
His neighbor

Lily stems being cut

Rose stems being cut

Tree leaves detaching and falling

The Characters in this story

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Answered by Aslan on 8/17/2023 4:44 PM

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How do you turn the sound down on a Mgaxyff White Noise sound machine

Sorry, I don't know this.

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Sound machine

I think he was an obsessive inventor that wanted a result any way he coud get it. Obsession is a prevailing theme throughout the book. What starts out as piqued interest soon turns into full-fledged obsession, as Klausner resorts to cruel methods...

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