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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. Starbuck is released from prison in _____.
(a) 1977.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1967.

2. What did Hapgood do for Sacco and Vanzetti?
(a) Protest.
(b) Send food.
(c) Post bail.
(d) Defend in court.

3. What is the last, ironic word of Chapter 6?
(a) "Great."
(b) "Peace."
(c) "Love."
(d) "Curious."

4. Sarah's family wanted their clocks to be readable ______.
(a) To blind people.
(b) In code.
(c) Clearly.
(d) In the dark.

5. One of the factory workers was whose mother?
(a) Mary Kathleen O'Looney's.
(b) Starbuck's.
(c) Clewes'.
(d) Sarah Wyatt's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ruth reserved about relationships?

2. Where did Hapgood go to college?

3. Saying Trout is on the "outside" means what?

4. Starbuck realizes that by leaving prison he is rejoining _________.

5. Looking in the mirror in his new suit, Starbuck observes that he looks _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. After receiving the fan letter, why did Vonnegut feel he didn't need to write this or other books?

2. How did Starbuck become involved in the Watergate Scandal?

3. What is the significance of "Kilgore Trout" being a pseudonym?

4. What are the degrees of separation between Sarah Wyatt and Mary Kathleen O'Looney in Chapter 9?

5. How prevalent is "identity" in the Prologue? Why and how is it used?

6. What effect do Starbuck's relationships have on him? What is he relationship with himself?

7. How is Fender's story of Vicuna a metaphor?

8. Why does Starbuck cry in the cab home?

9. How did Starbuck meet his wife, Ruth? Why was the beginning of their relationship rocky?

10. What ruins Sarah's and Starbuck's date? Why does she insist they leave?

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