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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 is the title of Chapter 78?
(a) "Ring of Steel."
(b) "Secret Agent X-9."
(c) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(d) "End of the World Delight."

2. In Chapter 120, the narrator recalls an advertisement for a set of children's books. What was the title of this set?
(a) The Book of Truth.
(b) The Book of the Dragon.
(c) The Scheherazade.
(d) The Book of Knowledge.

3. What is the title of Chapter 111?
(a) "Protein."
(b) "Feast Your Eyes!"
(c) "The Marines March On."
(d) "Time Out."

4. What is the title of Chapter 102?
(a) "Gone, but Not Forgotten."
(b) "End of the World Delight."
(c) "Enemies of Freedom."
(d) "Secret Agent X-9."

5. What is the title of Chapter 89?
(a) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(b) "Boko-maru."
(c) "Duffle."
(d) "A White Bride for the Son of a Pullman Porter."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the capital of San Lorenzo?

2. What is the title of Chapter 81?

3. What beverages are offered at the ceremonies in Chapter 102?

4. What is the one word from The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, titled "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years"?

5. At what time does Frank say the air show is to go off in Chapter 100?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the cleaning process in Chapter 111?

2. What does John spend his time doing in his last days after the destruction of Ice-nine?

3. How is Newt's painting described in Chapter 74? What does it signify?

4. How did Dr. Felix Hoenikker die? What clues allude to how he died?

5. What is satirical about the "writer's strike" that Philip Castle proposes in Chapter 103?

6. How does Julian Castle describe Bokonon's relationship to the truth in Chapter 78?

7. How is John's encounter with Mona described in Chapter 91?

8. What does the narrator comment regarding old men and wars in the novel?

9. How is Franklin Hoenikker described by the narrator?

10. What statement do you think that Kurt Vonnegut is making through the character of Mona in the novel?

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