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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 does Harrison declare himself as?

2. Where is Harrison being detained?

3. What happens to the screen when Harrison enters the studio?

4. How often do the earpiece handicaps make noise?

5. How old is Harrison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reader to assume about Harrison's goals?

2. What is the penalty for removing balls of birdshot from a handicap?

3. Why does George miss his son's execution?

4. What would happen if people could not ponder important things?

5. What happens to George and Hazel's television?

6. Why does Hazel not tell George about the murder?

7. What does Harrison promise the musicians if they play well?

8. What does Harrison outgrow?

9. Why is this short story considered a satire?

10. Why does Harrison threaten the musicians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hazel feel about the sounds George hears? What would she do if she could be Handicapper General? Is Hazel compassionate, jealous, or both?

Essay Topic 2

How is Harrison unlike any other person? What makes him have an individual personality when everyone else blindly follows the government?

Essay Topic 3

Why was this short story written? What is Vonnegut trying to say about society? Do you think the premise of his argument is valid?

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