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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Wilbur learn of Eliza's trip to China?
2. What battle do Wilbur and Vera discuss?
3. What does Wilbur become obsessed with following his presidency?
4. Where is the Daffodil directory kept?
5. What is the name of the second illness to sweep through the United States?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Wilbur finishes speaking with Eliza in the afterlife, what does he plan to do and why?
2. What is the new system for middle names?
3. How are those with the same noun in their middle name related?
4. What scientific discovery has been made by Dr. von Peterswald?
5. What causes the Green Death?
6. What does a meeting at the Thirteen Club look like?
7. Why does Sophie object to her new middle name?
8. When Wilbur returns to his graduation party, people think that Eliza's voice had come from where?
9. Walter finds it disturbing to be around the religious members of the kidnapped Jesus cult for what reason?
10. After gravity shifts for the first time, everyone is crying for help. What does Wilbur do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Wilbur is the President of the United States, he changes the system of names in order to bring people together. Analyze the purpose, process, and result of this attempt, citing examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the childhood of Kurt Vonnegut and Wilbur.
1) What are the similarities?
2) What are the differences?
3) Why might the author have chosen to work with these particular themes?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the novel, the definition of family takes many different forms. Analyze the idea of family as it appears in the novel.
1) How can family exist outside of blood relatives?
2) What does family mean to Kurt Vonnegut?
2) What does family mean to Wilbur?
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