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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. What are the ballerinas loaded down with?

2. What does George call the time before handicaps?

3. What kind of gun does Diana Moon Glampers have?

4. What does it mean to hobble someone?

5. Which legend is Harrison compared to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harrison look like when he crashes into the studio?

2. What kind of sounds does George hear in his earpiece?

3. What is the penalty for removing balls of birdshot from a handicap?

4. Why does Hazel not tell George about the murder?

5. How does Hazel feel about the sounds George hears?

6. What is the pinnacle of the dance between the Emperor and Empress?

7. Why does Harrison threaten the musicians?

8. What does Harrison promise the musicians if they play well?

9. Why does George miss his son's execution?

10. Why is Harrison's police photo displayed in the wrong direction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Harrison unlike any other person? What makes him have an individual personality when everyone else blindly follows the government?

Essay Topic 2

On page 764, Hazel says that if anyone should know what normal is, it is her. What is normal about Hazel? Why does she not wear handicaps? How does the narrator view Hazel?

Essay Topic 3

Is the good of the few worth sacrificing the good of the many? How does Vonnegut answer this question? Is your opinion the same or different?

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