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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Trout and his companion tell the homeless men?
(a) The Kilgore's Creed.
(b) The Ode to Prosperity.
(c) The Ode to Homeless men.
(d) The Trout Creed.

2. What is the name of the hospital mentioned that treated drug addicts?
(a) Bellevue.
(b) Mercy Cross.
(c) Memorial.
(d) Baptist.

3. What did Trout's parents study?
(a) Birds.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Reptiles.

4. What would be the next step towards idealism after woman's rights?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) Economic justice.
(c) A Bill of Rights.
(d) Emancipation.

5. What does Trout discover in Chapter 46 after the timequake has ended?
(a) The time machine.
(b) The gun.
(c) The money.
(d) The smoke alarm.

6. What new study does Vonnegut desire humans to invest their time in?
(a) Human compassion.
(b) Human purposes.
(c) Human desire.
(d) Human awareness.

7. What emotion did Vonnegut's grandfather's second wife act on?
(a) Anger.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

8. What did Trout's parents observe the animals do in their observations?
(a) They showed their young how to fly.
(b) They ate their young.
(c) They starved their young.
(d) They kicked their eggs off a high rock.

9. Where do Vonnegut and Trout go after the play?
(a) A clambake.
(b) A picnic.
(c) A crawfish boil.
(d) A pig cook.

10. What stops on its own accord?
(a) All volume.
(b) The alarm.
(c) Mayhem.
(d) Time.

11. Who becomes involved helping those suffering from the timequake's end?
(a) The firemen.
(b) Children and women.
(c) The homeless men.
(d) Women.

12. What does Vonnegut take with Trout in Chapter 63?
(a) The stage.
(b) A shot of whiskey.
(c) Money from the bank.
(d) A shot of vodka.

13. What do the observations of the animals suggest about evolution?
(a) It is failing.
(b) It has failed us.
(c) It is innate.
(d) It is working.

14. Why did Vonnegut choose to go to college rather than take his dream job?
(a) College was the easy way out.
(b) His dream job was the easy way out.
(c) He wanted more money for the job.
(d) He had no where to work up to.

15. What did the government declare as a result of the reinstated free will?
(a) Martial law.
(b) War.
(c) Marshall law.
(d) Attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was ringing the doorbell when the alarm was going off?

2. What needs to be redistributed upward according to Vonnegut?

3. What was Vonnegut's first wife's name?

4. What does Vonnegut still write on?

5. Who is an experimental artist?

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