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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Trout dress in Chapter 12?
(a) Like a homeless person.
(b) Like a business man.
(c) Like a bag lady.
(d) Like a janitor.

2. What does Vonnegut reflect on at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Love.
(c) Religion.
(d) Friendship.

3. What does Vonnegut write abut at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Sex.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Drugs.

4. Who does Vonnegut believe religion is for?
(a) The depressed.
(b) The middle class.
(c) Those who struggle with life.
(d) The kind hearted.

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

6. What did one of Vonnegut's friends win as a reward in the war?
(a) A blue diamond.
(b) A bronze star.
(c) A gold medal.
(d) A purple heart.

7. Who did Vonnegut know that never married for money?
(a) His mom.
(b) His siblings.
(c) His sister, Allie.
(d) His dad.

8. Where was the atomic bomb invented?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The University of Georgia.
(c) The Univeristy of Mississippi.
(d) The Univiersty of Ohio.

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

10. Who do the officers play bingo with in "Bingo Bunker Party"?
(a) Nazi's.
(b) Hitler.
(c) The children.
(d) Themselves.

11. Who sees Trout discard his literary work?
(a) A nurse at the hospital.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Another writer.
(d) A guard at the Academy.

12. What year in high school was Zolant when he stole another student's work?
(a) Twelfth.
(b) Ninth.
(c) Tenth.
(d) Eleventh.

13. What causes a universe to stop for a decade?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) An atomic bomb.
(c) A timequake.
(d) A time bomb.

14. Where did the police find Trout?
(a) Hitch hiking.
(b) A street in New York City.
(c) In the subway.
(d) A library in New York City.

15. What does Fleon buy?
(a) A suit.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) Underwear.
(d) A shirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hopes to find an "important message from a higher power" in Trout's writing?

2. Who wrote about Fleon Sunoco?

3. What does Vonnegut argue most people would like life to be like?

4. Why does Fleon commit suicide?

5. How does Zolant react to seeing the manuscript?

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