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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What qualifies someone to be able to celebrate more than one anniversary a year?
(a) Many days of togetherness.
(b) Many moments of togetheness.
(c) Having children.
(d) Many hours of togetherness.

2. How does Trout want people to perceive him?
(a) Sane and dangerous.
(b) Insane, but harmless.
(c) Dangerous, but insane.
(d) Harmless, but insane.

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

4. What is the response from the person Vonnegut writes to when he is restless about his writing?
(a) His prose was turned into poetry.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To go on a vacation.
(d) To take a sebatical.

5. What did people not know existed until many years later?
(a) Another hemisphere.
(b) Ice ages.
(c) Another galaxy.
(d) Meteorites.

6. What did Vonnegut's sister die from?
(a) A collapsed lung.
(b) Cancer.
(c) A car crash.
(d) Pneumonia.

7. What does Vonnegut feel no one will ever understand?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) God.
(d) Weather.

8. Where do people find themselves when the universe stops for a decade?
(a) Ten years forward.
(b) Ten years back.
(c) Ten hours behind.
(d) Suspended fro ten years.

9. What does Vonnegut write abut at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Sex.
(d) Alcohol.

10. Who wrote "The Sisters B-36"?
(a) Allie.
(b) Vonnegut.
(c) No one.
(d) Trout.

11. What is the name of the writer's retreat?
(a) Xandow.
(b) Xanduss.
(c) Xandus.
(d) Xanadu.

12. Who did Vonnegut know that never married for money?
(a) His mom.
(b) His sister, Allie.
(c) His siblings.
(d) His dad.

13. What did one of Vonnegut's friends win as a reward in the war?
(a) A purple heart.
(b) A blue diamond.
(c) A gold medal.
(d) A bronze star.

14. Who do the officers play bingo with in "Bingo Bunker Party"?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Nazi's.
(d) The children.

15. What does Vonnegut reflect on at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Love.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hitler's last word according to "Bingo Bunker Party"?

2. In what city is the American Academy of Arts and Letters located?

3. Which of the following are NOT mentioned as possible addictions?

4. How does Trout dress in Chapter 12?

5. What does Vonnegut imagine combines?

(see the answer keys)

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