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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 the government declare as a result of the reinstated free will?

2. Who is an experimental artist?

3. What did Vonnegut want to work for before he went to college?

4. Who does Vonnegut send his pages of work to?

5. What was Vonnegut's first wife's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vonnegut type his work on?

2. What does Vonnegut want in a family?

3. What did Vonnegut turn down to go to college instead?

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

5. What assassination does Vonnegut describe?

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

7. Discuss what Vonnegut sees as the difference between his work and his brother's.

8. Who inspires Vonnegut's love for books?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Vonnegut perceives religion and how he influences those that are religious.

Essay Topic 3

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

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