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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 Hazel say she will allow George to be for a while?

2. Why is Harrison considered a threat?

3. Who is George shocked to see on television?

4. How does the reader know that two dancers have radios?

5. What does Harrison declare himself as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What emotion does Hazel express without understanding why?

2. Why are George and Hazel unable to think about their son?

3. What are amendments?

4. What kind of sounds does George hear in his earpiece?

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

6. Why is Harrison's police photo displayed in the wrong direction?

7. Would sports exist in Harrison's world?

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

9. What are Harrison's handicap motivations?

10. What is humorous about Hazel repeating her doozy remark at the end of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Diana Moon Glampers exempt from handicaps? Would you expect her to have more handicaps than the general public? How would her position and ability to enforce the law be affected?

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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