The Sound Machine Quizzes

The Sound Machine Quiz 1

1 Who narrates "The Sound Machine"?
An unnamed third-person narrator

The doctor

Mrs. Saunders

Klausner
2 Who wrote "The Sound Machine"?
The doctor

An unnamed narrator

Klausner

Roald Dahl
3 What genre is "The Sound Machine"?
Short story

Comics

Novel

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

Poverty

The Personification of Plants

Obsession
5 Who is the story's protagonist?
Klausner's wife

Mrs. Saunders

Klausner

The doctor
6 Where is Klausner's workshop?
His garden shed

The Doctor's shed

A mental hospital

A prison yard
7 What is Klausner's profession?
Botanist

Something to do with sound that is never clearly specified

Railroad engineer

Musician
8 What does the narrator liken the shape of the sound machine to?
An artillery case

A clown's shoebox

A child's coffin

A briefcase
9 What does Klausner do while tinkering with the wires in his box?
Talk softly to himself

Shout with his neighbor

Cry

Listen to jazz
10 Who comes to visit Klausner in his workshop?
The doctor

A police officer

Mrs. Saunders

Klausner's father
11 What is the doctor's name?
Stone

Ellis

Scott

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

Teeth

Throat

Ears
13 What is the mood in the workshop when the doctor asks Klausner about his box?
Tense

Airy

Haunting

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

He yawns as if it is boring

Bouncing off the walls with manic energy

Reluctant to speak about it
15 What is the likely unsaid reason the doctor checks up on Klausner?
He is Klausner's brother

He has a crush on Klausner

He is Klausner's father

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 make toast on a timer every morning

To pick up alien radio frequencies
17 What does Klausner say is the upper limit of the human hearing range?
15,000 vibrations a second

He never says a number

20,000 vibrations a second

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?
Hither and yon

Reality and fantasy

Klausner's body and mind

Forces of good and evil
20 How does Klausner's sound machine make the inaudible audible?
It has a very large microphone

It turns high vibrations into lower-pitched tones

It never works

None of these
21 What example does Klausner give for animals being able to hear different things than humans?
A dog whistle

The music of the spheres

An infrasonic device

A baby dove's song
22 Where does Klausner conduct his first test?
His back garden

The park

His workshop

The doctor's office
23 What does "bespectacled" mean?
Sizzling hot

Covered in spots

Wearing eyeglasses

Full of acne
24 Who is Klausner's neighbor?
The doctor

Mrs. Saunders

His ex-wife

His brother
25 What does Klausner hear make a shriek?
Lily stems being cut

Rose stems being cut

His neighbor

Tree leaves detaching and falling

The Characters in this story

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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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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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