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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city is the American Academy of Arts and Letters located?
(a) Atlanta, Ga.
(b) Buffalo, NY.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

2. What happened to the copy of "The Sisters B-36"?
(a) It was published.
(b) Vonngeut threw it away.
(c) Trout threw it away.
(d) Allie threw it away.

3. What is Trout's disguise intended to do?
(a) Better understand Trout's character.
(b) Evoke sympathy in the onlooker.
(c) Give background information.
(d) Nothing.

4. What war is going on during Trout's story "Bingo Bunker Party"?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The American Revolution.

5. How does Zolant react to seeing the manuscript?
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Perplexed.
(d) Excited.

6. What addiction does Vonnegut claim is possible for people?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Writing.
(d) Singing.

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

8. What does Vonnegut attribute his friend's tears who cried from an author's writing to?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Relief.
(c) Joy.
(d) Sadness.

9. What common expression does Vonnegut give detail on?
(a) "Out of sight, out of mind."
(b) "Ring a ding ding."
(c) "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
(d) "Ting a ling."

10. Who developed the first Soviet hydrogen bomb?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) Andrei Sakharov.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) Hitler.

11. What was Zoltan doing when the timequake went into effect?
(a) Singing in the shower.
(b) Ringing the doorbell.
(c) Taking a nap.
(d) Walking his dog.

12. What year in high school was Zolant when he stole another student's work?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Twelfth.
(c) Tenth.
(d) Ninth.

13. What does Fleon discover on the human brains who have been attributed as an intelligent?
(a) A hollow spot in their inner ear.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A bump on their inner ear.
(d) A bump on their nose.

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

15. What do the chapters with Fleon observe?
(a) Human intelligence.
(b) Human reaction.
(c) Human correspondence.
(d) Human observation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vonnegut hate to see his friend from war lose?

2. Who do the officers play bingo with in "Bingo Bunker Party"?

3. Who does Vonnegut believe religion is for?

4. How does Trout want people to perceive him?

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

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