Timequake | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Prologue, Chapters 1-5

1. What does Vonnegut tell the reader he stripped of all its bad pieces in the prologue?

2. What does Vonnegut compare his action of stripping out the bad pieces to?

3. What type of genre is "Timequake"?

4. What causes a universe to stop for a decade?

5. Where do people find themselves when the universe stops for a decade?

6. What does everyone have to do to reach normal time again?

7. Who is Kilgore Trout?

8. What does Vonnegut argue most people would like life to be like?

9. What does the human race continue to devise cleverly?

10. Where was the atomic bomb invented?

11. When was the...
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