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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 fate of RAMJAC?
(a) It's being shut down.
(b) It's going bankrupt.
(c) It's being bought up by a biger corporation.
(d) All the pieces are being sold off.

2. Starbuck interrupts his own memories by saying "________."
(a) Or so they say.
(b) Small world.
(c) Nevermind.
(d) What else?

3. Who is Clewes' wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Mary Kathleen.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Starbuck's sister.

4. Who arrives at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) Clewes.
(b) Sarah Wyatt.
(c) The police.
(d) McCone.

5. Mary Kathleen takes Starbuck to the top of _______.
(a) Her old apartment building.
(b) The Chrysler Building.
(c) The World Trade Center.
(d) The Empire State Building.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the harp salesman upset with Mary Kathleen?

2. What does Starbuck say to Clewes?

3. Why does Leen wait on Starbuck so diligently?

4. Mary Kathleen is concerned there is no _____ in the world.

5. Why does Starbuck want to hide Mary Kathleen's identity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leen mistake Starbuck for Mrs. Graham?

2. As far as Starbuck knows, why are he and the other "saints" at Leen's apartment?

3. Why does the harp salesman want to call the police on Starbuck?

4. Why does Starbuck cry when he sees Mary Kathleen?

5. Why are Starbuck, Clewes, Edel, and Ubriaco "saints" to Mary Kathleen?

6. How is Vonnegut invoking the senses of Starbuck's experience in his writing?

7. What is rain supposed to symbolize in the Epilogue?

8. Does Mary Kathleen believe people are good? Why or why not?

9. What did Starbuck's life with Ruth embody?

10. Does Clewes accept Starbuck's apology? What is his response?

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