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'Catch 22' Quotations Trivia Quiz

Joseph Heller has been widely acclaimed for his use of clever and unusual dialogue in 'Catch 22'. How familiar are you with the dialogue of Heller's characters?

A multiple-choice quiz by princessrae. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
princessrae

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
208,659

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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653

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who said: 'They're shooting at everyone... They're trying to kill everyone."? Hint

Dobbs

Yossarian

Dunbar

Clevinger

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Question 2 of 10

2. In Chapter 3 which character's pep talk begins: 'You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.' Hint

Colonel Cathcart

General Dreedle

Colonel Korn

Colonel Cargill

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which character is Doc Daneeka talking to when he says: 'Sure there's a catch...Catch 22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.'? Hint

Clevinger

Dunbar

Yossarian

Orr

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which character's pick up line is: 'Me big photographer from Life magazine. Big picture on big heap cover.'? Hint

Yossarian

Chief White Halfoat

Aarfy

Hungry Joe

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who is Yossarian talking to when he says: 'You won't marry me because I'm crazy, and you say I'm crazy because I want to marry you?'? Hint

Nately's whore

Nurse Duckett

Luciana

Nurse Cramer

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who weeps over the intercom: 'Help him... help the bombardier'? Hint

Havermeyer

Dobbs

Yossarian

Snowden

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who has 'a sure-fire plan for cheating the federal government out of six thousand dollars.' Hint

McWatt

Milo Minderbinder

Yossarian

Colonel Cathcart

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which patriotic individual claims that 'the American fighting man is second to none.'? Hint

Yossarian

Nately

Kid Sampson

The chaplain

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who warns Yossarian that: 'they're going to disappear Dunbar'? Hint

Lieutenant Schiesskopf's wife

Nurse Cramer

Nurse Duckett

Nately's whore

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which newspaper said that 'Catch 22': 'gasps for want of craft and sensibility'? Hint

the New Yorker

the New York Times

the Herald Tribune

the Sunday Times

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who said: 'They're shooting at everyone... They're trying to kill everyone."?

Answer: Clevinger

Clevinger finds it difficult to understand Yossarian's claim that just because the enemy planes are shooting at everyone doesn't mean they aren't trying to kill him.

2. In Chapter 3 which character's pep talk begins: 'You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.'

Answer: Colonel Cargill

This type of satirical humour directed at the ineptitute of officers is frequently used in 'Catch 22'.

3. Which character is Doc Daneeka talking to when he says: 'Sure there's a catch...Catch 22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.'?

Answer: Yossarian

The concept of 'Catch 22' is firmly rooted in our vocabulary, and frequently appears in stories, songs, speeches and dictionaries, despite being a fictional clause.

4. Which character's pick up line is: 'Me big photographer from Life magazine. Big picture on big heap cover.'?

Answer: Hungry Joe

Hungry Joe actually was a photographer for Life magazine before he joined the army.

5. Who is Yossarian talking to when he says: 'You won't marry me because I'm crazy, and you say I'm crazy because I want to marry you?'?

Answer: Luciana

Luciana's paradoxical claim for not marrying Yossarian is based around the idea of 'Catch 22' - an inescapable, illogical clause that Yossarian simply can't win at.

6. Who weeps over the intercom: 'Help him... help the bombardier'?

Answer: Dobbs

This line is repeated randomly and often throughout the novel, as Heller builds up the tension on the run up to the description of Snowden's death.

7. Who has 'a sure-fire plan for cheating the federal government out of six thousand dollars.'

Answer: Milo Minderbinder

Milo not only cheats the federal government out of money but most of his friends as well.

8. Which patriotic individual claims that 'the American fighting man is second to none.'?

Answer: Nately

By the end of the chapter (Chapter 23), Nately has been convinced by the old man in Rome that it doesn't matter how good a country's fighting men are, they will probably be more prosperous if they lose the war than if they win it.

9. Who warns Yossarian that: 'they're going to disappear Dunbar'?

Answer: Nurse Duckett

The process of 'disappearing' someone is never explained to us in the novel, so for all we know Dunbar may still be alive at the end.

10. Which newspaper said that 'Catch 22': 'gasps for want of craft and sensibility'?

Answer: the Sunday Times

Joseph Heller didn't seem too bothered about the unfavourable reviews of the novel as he said he is 'tempted to drown in laughter as I jot this down'.

Source: Author princessrae

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