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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who makes several insightful observations about the events at the party?
(a) No one.
(b) Lily.
(c) Vonnegut.
(d) Trout.

2. What is the story about Hitler filled with?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Analogies.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Black humor.

3. Who is Kilgore Trout?
(a) Vonnegut's alter ego.
(b) Vonnegut's best friend.
(c) Vonnegut's brother.
(d) Vonnegut's sister.

4. Where did the police find Trout?
(a) In the subway.
(b) A library in New York City.
(c) A street in New York City.
(d) Hitch hiking.

5. What does Trout feel contempt for?
(a) Writing newspaper articles.
(b) Writing literature.
(c) Writing poems.
(d) Writing science fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the response from the person Vonnegut writes to when he is restless about his writing?

2. What does Vonnegut imagine combines?

3. Who shows Zolant Trout's manuscript?

4. What is the condition of humans' free will during the timequake?

5. Where do people find themselves when the universe stops for a decade?

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