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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut compare his action of stripping out the bad pieces to?
(a) Filleting a fish.
(b) A sport.
(c) Golf.
(d) Jewelry.

2. What was the inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb rewarded with?
(a) A lot of money.
(b) A high governmental title.
(c) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(d) Nothing.

3. When was the first atomic bomb dropped?
(a) August 8, 1945.
(b) August 7, 1945
(c) August 5, 1945.
(d) August 6, 1945.

4. Where is the writer's retreat located?
(a) California.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Rhode Island.

5. Who is Monica Pepper?
(a) Trout's sister.
(b) One of Vonnegut's fictionalized character.
(c) Trout's cousin.
(d) Vonnegut's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kilgore Trout?

2. What does Vonnegut reflect on that impressed him during his life?

3. What was the planet named in which Trout's three sisters character's lived?

4. Where does Monica Pepper work?

5. What causes a universe to stop for a decade?

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