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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 is Eve's knowledge of lovemaking almost as good as according to Vonnegut?

2. What does Vonnegut claim Satan is?

3. Who hopes to find an "important message from a higher power" in Trout's writing?

4. What should people suspend to enjoy poetry and fiction?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the addictions Vonnegut describes.

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

3. Why does Zoltan become excited in Chapter 19?

4. What happened to people in the western hemisphere when the timequake ended and why?

5. What were the Peppers doing when the timequake struck?

6. How does Vonnegut feel about the atomic bomb?

7. How does Trout disguise himself in Chapter 13?

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

9. Who is Kilgore Trout?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe and explain how humans pretend to understand life but really have no idea of what life means to them individually.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why such mayhem and chaos results from the return of free will post timequake.

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