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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 feel no one will ever understand?
(a) God.
(b) Weather.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

2. What is located next to the American Academy of Arts and Letters?
(a) A homeless shelter.
(b) A skating rink.
(c) A shopping mall.
(d) A park.

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

4. How does Hitler die according to "Bingo Bunker Party"?
(a) He dies from pneumonia.
(b) He dies of cancer.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He shoots himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who retrieves "The Sisters B-36" from the trash?

2. Who wrote "The Sisters B-36"?

3. Who wrote "A Street Car Named Desire"?

4. What does Vonnegut reflect on that impressed him during his life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the Museum of the American Indian is turned into.

2. Who is Monica Pepper?

3. Who is Kilgore Trout?

4. What must people do when reading science fiction?

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

6. Where did the police find Trout and why?

7. What type of writing does Trout want to write?

8. Describe why the author recalls one of his friend's tears.

9. What is the implication about free will during the timequake?

10. How does the author feel about humanism?

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