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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the writer's retreat?
(a) Xandow.
(b) Xanduss.
(c) Xandus.
(d) Xanadu.
2. What war is going on during Trout's story "Bingo Bunker Party"?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The Vietnam War.
3. Where does the author find himself when the story jumps ahead in Chapter 6?
(a) Europe.
(b) Chirstmas.
(c) A clambake.
(d) Thanksgiving.
4. What did Vonnegut hate to see his friend from war lose?
(a) His religious faith.
(b) His fiance.
(c) His strength.
(d) His determination.
5. What does Vonnegut write abut at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Sex.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Drugs.
6. What does Vonnegut feel no one will ever understand?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) God.
(d) Weather.
7. Who is Kilgore Trout?
(a) Vonnegut's best friend.
(b) Vonnegut's alter ego.
(c) Vonnegut's brother.
(d) Vonnegut's sister.
8. What was the inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb rewarded with?
(a) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) A high governmental title.
(c) A lot of money.
(d) Nothing.
9. Who do the officers play bingo with in "Bingo Bunker Party"?
(a) Nazi's.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Hitler.
(d) The children.
10. How old was Vonnegut's granddaughter when she performed in a play?
(a) 11 years old.
(b) 14 years old.
(c) 12 years old.
(d) 13 years old.
11. What common expression does Vonnegut give detail on?
(a) "Ting a ling."
(b) "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
(c) "Ring a ding ding."
(d) "Out of sight, out of mind."
12. Where is the writer's retreat located?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) California.
(d) Rhode Island.
13. What does Trout feel contempt for?
(a) Writing science fiction.
(b) Writing literature.
(c) Writing newspaper articles.
(d) Writing poems.
14. What causes a universe to stop for a decade?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A timequake.
(c) An atomic bomb.
(d) A time bomb.
15. What did people not know existed until many years later?
(a) Another hemisphere.
(b) Another galaxy.
(c) Ice ages.
(d) Meteorites.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Fleon prepare to go to?
2. What is the story about Hitler filled with?
3. What kills Zoltan when free will is reinstated?
4. Where was the first atomic bomb dropped?
5. What is the condition of humans' free will during the timequake?
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