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1. Catch-22 is set on an American airbase on an island off the coast of Italy. While the island is not fictional, it is too small to have actually housed an air base. What's the island called?
2. In the original pressings of the novel, the Chaplain is named R.O. Shipman; when his name was changed in the 1970 film adaptation the change was kept in subsequent American editions. What name is the Chaplain given in these pressings of the novel?
3. Three generals are major players throughout the novel - one, Dreedle, oversees the base at Pianosa; another, Peckem, wants very badly to oversee the base on Pianosa. Who is the third, who is unwittingly promoted to General and replaces Dreedle near the end of the novel?
4. Yossarian meets an Italian woman named Luciana who will not marry him because she thinks he is crazy for wanting to marry her. When she writes down her address for Yossarian, what does she correctly guess that he will do with it?
5. While it is theoretically in Doctor Daneeka's power to do something which would ground Yossarian, it is an act made impossible by military bureaucracy. What would Daneeka have to do?
6. While censoring mail in the hospital, Yossarian begins fraudulently signing letters with the name "Washington Irving" for his own entertainment. Who else, later in the novel, begins signing official documents this way, and even wears a disguise while doing so?
7. Doctor Daneeka is required to fly despite being a non-combatant, so he fraudulently puts his name on manifests of several of McWatt's flights. What happens to Daneeka when McWatt crashes his plane and dies?
8. A young soldier named Giuseppe causes an uproar in the Pianosa hospital when he makes a bold, delirious claim; the doctors study him for a day or two, and he dies before his family can arrive to visit. What does Giuseppe claim, as noted in the title of the chapter in which he appears?
9. While the term is now understood as a logical paradox, "Catch-22" is cited throughout the novel as a specific rule, though its text is never stated outright. What does Yossarian realize about Catch-22 late in the novel?
10. What becomes of Yossarian's roommate, Orr, by the end of the novel?
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