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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. What does the author promote in an abstract way?
(a) Friendly habits.
(b) Habitual necessities.
(c) Family values.
(d) Family lifestyles.

2. What does Vonnegut buy at the stationary store?
(a) A card.
(b) An envelope.
(c) Some paper.
(d) A stamp.

3. How did Vonnegut's grandfather's second wife treat his children?
(a) She was nice, but distant.
(b) She nurtured them.
(c) She was close to them.
(d) She tortured them.

4. What assassin does Vonnegut mention?
(a) Lee Harvey Ozwald.
(b) John Wilkes Booth.
(c) He never mentions an assassin.
(d) Hitler and the Nazi's.

5. Who would give Vonnegut all the best literary work's written?
(a) His mother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stops on its own accord?

2. What did people regard Vonnegut as?

3. Who does Vonnegut confess his deep love to?

4. Where do Vonnegut and Trout go after the play?

5. How does the author view folk art?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vonnegut feel about his brother's art?

2. Describe Vonnegut's step grandmother.

3. What does Vonnegut think a future study should be?

4. What did Vonnegut turn down to go to college instead?

5. Describe Vonnegut's experience at the stationary store.

6. What assassination does Vonnegut describe?

7. What is the Kilgore Creed?

8. What does Trout admit his actions post timequake were?

9. What does Trout find after the timequake that he becomes destructive with?

10. Discuss what Vonnegut sees as the difference between his work and his brother's.

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