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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the capital city of San Lorenzo given its current name, according to the narrator in Chapter 60?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1945.

2. How many people depart the plane in San Lorenzo, including the narrator, in Chapter 62?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. What is the company that Angela's husband is President of, according to Newt in Chapter 80?
(a) Intellitek.
(b) Fabri-Tek.
(c) The Del Prado Hotel.
(d) Corporo-tek.

4. What is the title of Chapter 107?
(a) "Just Like Saint Augustine."
(b) "Feast Your Eyes!"
(c) "Secret Agent X-9."
(d) "The Marines March On."

5. What does Frank tell Angela she "bought" with her portion of Ice-nine in Chapter 109?
(a) "A tomcat husband."
(b) "A house in the Hamptons."
(c) "A brief affair."
(d) "A trip to Europe."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 73?

2. Chapter 96 is titled "Bell, Book, and Chicken in" what?

3. What causes the rockslide in Chapter 115?

4. With whom does Frank Hoenikker describe having an affair as a teenager in Chapter 89?

5. How many people died at Julian Castle's hospital in ten days after the plague outbreak, according to his son in Chapter 73?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Frank Hoenikker solicit John to take the role as President of San Lorenzo?

2. How is Frank's house described by the narrator?

3. How does Julian Castle describe Bokonon's relationship to the truth in Chapter 78?

4. What does the narrator comment regarding old men and wars in the novel?

5. How is the Papa Monzano's bomb shelter described in Chapter 117?

6. What statement do you think that Kurt Vonnegut is making through the character of Mona in the novel?

7. How is John's encounter with Mona described in Chapter 91?

8. How does the narrator describe the morality surrounding the Hoenikker children taking the Ice-nine in Chapter 113?

9. What is Philip Castle's implication when he asks John if he sells medicine in Chapter 70?

10. What does John spend his time doing in his last days after the destruction of Ice-nine?

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