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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 recognize the importance of in Chapter 17?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Love.
(c) Religion.
(d) Passion.

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

3. What does Vonnegut describe after Fleon's death?
(a) The mayhem after the timequake ended.
(b) Fleon's mother's response.
(c) The mayhem as the timequake went into effect.
(d) The Nobel Peace Prize.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows Zolant Trout's manuscript?

2. What does Trout feel contempt for?

3. What was Vonnegut's career post World War II?

4. Where did the police find Trout?

5. What kind of expressions does Vonnegut mention throughout his description of Hitler and life on autopilot?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dudley Prince?

2. Discuss the addictions Vonnegut describes.

3. What does Vonnegut believe most people are interested in?

4. What is Xanadu?

5. Discuss what the author did after World War II.

6. How does Vonnegut feel about his own writing?

7. What must people do when reading science fiction?

8. How does Trout disguise himself in Chapter 13?

9. How does the author feel about humanism?

10. Who is Kilgore Trout?

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