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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. Who wrote The Spoon River Anthology that the Ambassador quotes from at the celebration?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Edgar Lee Masters.
(c) Lyman Enders Knowles.
(d) Sherman Krebbs.

2. What is the title of Chapter 71?
(a) "The Happiness of Being an American."
(b) "Vice-president in Charge of Volcanoes."
(c) "A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils."
(d) "Just Like Saint Augustine."

3. How many taxicabs are there on the island of San Lorenzo?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. What does John call the tornadoes he can see filling the sky in Chapter 116?
(a) Worms.
(b) Spikes.
(c) Giants.
(d) Demons.

5. Who is the doctor that attends to Papa Monzano, according to Julian Castle in Chapter 83?
(a) Dr. Schlichter von Koenigswald.
(b) Dr. Lionel Boyd Johnson.
(c) Dr. Lyman Enders Knowles.
(d) Dr. Marvin Sharpe Holderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 111?

2. What is the motto of the Western Hemisphere University of the Bible of Little Rock, Arkansas, according to Dr. Vox Humana in Chapter 96?

3. What does Julian Castle claim to be the only aspect of progress that really excites the people of San Lorenzo?

4. Julian Castle claims in Chapter 104 that "The people of San Lorenzo are only interested in three things." What are these three things?

5. What is the title of Chapter 89?

Short Essay Questions

1. What symbolism can be seen in the story of the shipwreck on San Lorenzo that is related by Philip Castle?

2. How is Newt's painting described in Chapter 74? What does it signify?

3. How is Frank's house described by the narrator?

4. How does the narrator describe the morality surrounding the Hoenikker children taking the Ice-nine in Chapter 113?

5. How does the author characterize Papa Monzano when he is introduced?

6. What considerations does John have regarding Bokononism as he writes his presidential acceptance speech in Chapter 101?

7. Why was Bokononism initially banned? What impact did the ban have on Bokonon?

8. How is the theme of inequality of wealth demonstrated in Chapter 62?

9. What statement do you think that Kurt Vonnegut is making through the character of Mona in the novel?

10. How is Franklin Hoenikker described by the narrator?

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