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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. Why can Vonnegut not get married at an Episcopalian church?

2. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?

3. This book is the sequel to what other book?

4. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?

5. The author pictures his father as what fictional character waiting for a prince to awaken his career?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the character Billy Pilgrim to the character's model, Joe Crone.

2. What are two things Vonnegut does not like about President Bush?

3. What are four things Vonnegut and O'Hare have in common?

4. What makes Alice a lazy artist?

5. Vonnegut says children relate to the Universe as a one-on-one playmate. What profession does the same? When would members of this profession no longer play this way?

6. How is Father's reaction to praise for his artwork different from his daughter's?

7. How are the Reverend and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography the same?

8. What is one similarity and one difference between the author and Elie Wiesel?

9. What is Vonnegut's opinion of the traditional requiem mass?

10. What is Vonnegut's opinion of liberty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

19th century British aristocrats are sufferers of "Folk Society Deficiency."

Part 1) How do they suffer from this deficiency? Who does this affect other people from different cultures?

Part 2) What other areas of the world have suffered in the same way? How?

Part 3) Do societies still suffers from this deficiency? How?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of organizations such as CARE and World Vision? IF you organized your own association, what would it be called? What would be the purpose of your organization?

Essay Topic 3

Vonnegut does not believe Liberty has yet to be born.

Part 1) Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Part 2) What can you do to bring about the birth of Liberty?

Part 3) How do you see progression of liberty over the next 100 years?

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