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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people not know existed until many years later?

2. Who did Vonnegut know that never married for money?

3. What does Trout do with the stories he writes?

4. What did one of Vonnegut's friends win as a reward in the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vonnegut feel about his own writing?

2. What happens to Fleon Sunoco?

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

4. Why does the author think humans are stupid?

5. Who is Monica Pepper?

6. What is a timequake?

7. Why does Zoltan become excited in Chapter 19?

8. What ideas are the author's expressions a major reflection of?

9. Who is Kilgore Trout?

10. What idea does Vonnegut explore about human actions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Vonnegut's opinion of his brother's artwork to his opinion of his own work. How does Vonnegut compare literary to folk art?

Essay Topic 2

Explain and analyze the responsibility of free will and how that responsibility impacts one's actions and consequences to their actions?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of cause and effect after the timequake ends.

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