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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Starbuck waiting for in the prison yard?
(a) His belongings.
(b) A sign.
(c) The bus.
(d) Sarah Wyatt.

2. Starbuck is released from prison in _____.
(a) 1992.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1967.

3. Where did Hapgood go to college?
(a) NYU.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

4. At the beginning of the prologue, "Kilgore Trout is ________."
(a) Back again.
(b) Amazing.
(c) Missing.
(d) Dead.

5. Vonnegut describes Hapgood as a _______ figure.
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Curious.
(c) Colorful.
(d) Tempermental.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Vonnegut receive a letter?

2. What would have happened if Vonnegut had received the letter a few years earlier?

3. Why are the people of Vicuna leaving their planet?

4. A Frenchman at the airport is angry because of the ________ on Starbuck's suit.

5. In what magazine was Fender's story of Vicuna published?

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