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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Trout's unfinished memoir mentioned in Chapter 16?
(a) "My Ten Years Suspended."
(b) "Life on Hold."
(c) "My Ten Years on Automatic Pilot."
(d) "Life in Suspension."

2. Who did Zolant Pepper go to high school with?
(a) Monica.
(b) Trout.
(c) Vonnegut.
(d) Allie.

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

4. What does Fleon buy?
(a) A suitcase.
(b) Underwear.
(c) A suit.
(d) A shirt.

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

6. Where was the atomic bomb invented?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The Univeristy of Mississippi.
(c) The University of Georgia.
(d) The Univiersty of Ohio.

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

8. How does Trout dress in Chapter 12?
(a) Like a business man.
(b) Like a bag lady.
(c) Like a janitor.
(d) Like a homeless person.

9. What happens to people's brains during life on autopilot?
(a) They become extremely dense.
(b) They become extremely passionate.
(c) They become extremely comfortable.
(d) They become extremely lazy.

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

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

12. What was Vonnegut's career post World War II?
(a) He was a Navy officer.
(b) He was a cab driver.
(c) He worked for General Electric.
(d) He was a teacher.

13. What does everyone have to do to reach normal time again?
(a) Appreciate each other.
(b) Repeat the previous ten years exactly as they happened.
(c) Exercise for ten years.
(d) Sleep for ten years.

14. What does Vonnegut predict jock itch will become fatal with?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Sodium.
(c) Sulfer.
(d) Carbon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Monica working on when the timequake went into effect?

2. What does Fleon discover on the human brains who have been attributed as an intelligent?

3. Who is Monica Pepper?

4. Who wrote "Our Town".

5. What does Vonnegut compare his action of stripping out the bad pieces to?

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