Q 01/05

Under Catch-22, an airman can be excused from combat for insanity only by doing what?

A) Fails a medical exam

B) Crashes his own plane

C) Asks to be grounded

D) Refuses a direct order

Answer · why

C) Asks to be grounded

Asks to be grounded: yet wanting out of deadly missions shows a rational mind, so whoever asks is sane and has to keep flying. The phrase soon entered...

Q 02/05

In which Brooklyn neighbourhood was Heller born in 1923?

A) Brighton Beach

B) Williamsburg

C) Flatbush

D) Coney Island

Answer · why

D) Coney Island

Coney Island never left his work: two of his later novels return to its streets, and his 1998 memoir is subtitled 'From Coney Island to Here'.

Q 03/05

Heller flew 60 bombing missions over Italy and France from which Mediterranean island?

A) Sicily

B) Sardinia

C) Corsica

D) Malta

Answer · why

C) Corsica

Corsica. He said it was all games, 'being in a Hollywood movie', until his 37th mission, when flak hit his plane; after that he was 'scared even on th...

Q 04/05

A flak hit that wounded Heller's gunner over Avignon inspired the death of which Catch-22 character?

A) Dobbs

B) Snowden

C) Clevinger

D) Kid Sampson

Answer · why

B) Snowden

Snowden. Heller fused his own gunner's thigh wound with the story of an airman on another crew who died moaning that he was cold, the scene that haunt...

Q 05/05

From which university did Heller receive his M.A. in English in 1949?

A) Columbia

B) Yale

C) Harvard

D) Princeton

Answer · why

A) Columbia

Columbia. The G.I. Bill was paying his way: discharged in 1945, he had finished at New York University only a year before the master's.