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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 emotion did Vonnegut's grandfather's second wife act on?

2. What did Vonnegut's first wife die from?

3. What does Vonnegut observe happens to humans once they reach a certain age?

4. Who is an experimental artist?

5. What does Vonnegut buy at the stationary store?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vonnegut think a future study should be?

2. What does Trout find after the timequake that he becomes destructive with?

3. What happens to traffic after the timequake ends?

4. Describe Vonnegut's step grandmother.

5. What does Vonnegut think about socialism?

6. How does Vonnegut feel about his brother's art?

7. What does Trout admit his actions post timequake were?

8. What does Trout do when the timequake ends?

9. How did Vonnegut's step grandmother affect him and the other grandchildren?

10. What do Vonnegut's parents observe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and analyze Trout's eccentricities and how his weird and quirky thoughts and behaviors are reflective of Vonnegut's own repressed emotions.

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

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

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