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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 hours of togetherness.
(b) Many days of togetherness.
(c) Many moments of togetheness.
(d) Having children.

2. What was the planet named in which Trout's three sisters character's lived?
(a) Planet Booboo.
(b) Planet 662.
(c) Planet Beenie.
(d) Planet Bobo.

3. How many years later did Vonnegut attend an anniversary of the atomic bombing at a chapel?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 30 years.

4. What does Vonnegut compare his action of stripping out the bad pieces to?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) A sport.
(c) Filleting a fish.
(d) Golf.

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

6. What does Vonnegut claim Satan is?
(a) A deity.
(b) A god.
(c) A male.
(d) A female.

7. What does Vonnegut imagine combines?
(a) Song and dance.
(b) Rain and sunshine.
(c) Peridoic table elements.
(d) Rain and snow.

8. Where is the writer's retreat located?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) California.

9. What does Fleon believe about intelligent people?
(a) They have radio wires in their heads.
(b) Their brains are fatter.
(c) They were born with extra brain power.
(d) Their brains are bigger.

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

11. What does Trout do with the stories he writes?
(a) Reads them out loud.
(b) Throws them in the trash.
(c) Keeps them hidden.
(d) Publishes them.

12. What do cars and airplanes do on auto pilot?
(a) Avoid crashes.
(b) Drive themselves.
(c) Crash.
(d) Coast to its destination.

13. Whose brains does Fleon study?
(a) Those who are American and Chinese.
(b) Those who are old and young.
(c) People of the Mensa and those who die in stupid accidents.
(d) Those who are Irish and Scotish.

14. Where does Monica Pepper work?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) At a theatre.
(c) At a drive in.
(d) The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Zolant Pepper go to high school with?

2. Who did Vonnegut know that never married for money?

3. What is Trout's disguise intended to do?

4. When was the first atomic bomb dropped?

5. Why does Fleon commit suicide?

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