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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "A Street Car Named Desire"?
(a) Aruthur Miller.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Thornton Wilder.
(d) Tennesee Williams.

3. What was the inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb rewarded with?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A lot of money.
(c) A high governmental title.
(d) The Nobel Peace Prize.

4. Who sees Trout discard his literary work?
(a) A nurse at the hospital.
(b) Another writer.
(c) A guard at the Academy.
(d) A police officer.

5. Who shows Zolant Trout's manuscript?
(a) Allie.
(b) Vonnegut.
(c) Prince.
(d) Trout.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Vonnegut believe religion is for?

2. What does everyone have to do to reach normal time again?

3. What is located next to the American Academy of Arts and Letters?

4. What does Vonnegut describe after Fleon's death?

5. What is the guard's name that mistakes Trout for a bag lady?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author bemoan losing appreciation for during the timequake?

2. Who is Dudley Prince?

3. Who is Monica Pepper?

4. How does the author feel about humanism?

5. Why does the author think humans are stupid?

6. How does Vonnegut feel about his own writing?

7. What happens to Fleon Sunoco?

8. What must people do when reading science fiction?

9. What happens in "Bingo Bunker Party"?

10. Describe what the author details in the prologue.

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