Timequake | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Prologue, Chapters 1-5

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

A novel.

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

Filleting a fish.

3. What type of genre is "Timequake"?

Science fiction.

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

A timequake.

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

Ten years back.

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

Repeat the previous ten years exactly as they happened.

7. Who is Kilgore Trout?

Vonnegut's alter ego.

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

A quick experience.

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

Doomsday devices.

10. Where was the atomic bomb...
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