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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. Who did Vonnegut know that never married for money?

2. What does Vonnegut recognize the importance of in Chapter 17?

3. What is the response from the person Vonnegut writes to when he is restless about his writing?

4. What does Vonnegut claim Satan is?

5. What year in high school was Zolant when he stole another student's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss what the author did after World War II.

2. What does the author bemoan losing appreciation for during the timequake?

3. Why does Zoltan become excited in Chapter 19?

4. Describe what Vonnegut's siblings were like after World War II.

5. What is Xanadu?

6. Where did the police find Trout and why?

7. How does Vonnegut perceive his friend's tears?

8. Who is Kilgore Trout?

9. Why does the author think humans are stupid?

10. What happened to people in the western hemisphere when the timequake ended and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain and analyze the responsibility of free will and how that responsibility impacts one's actions and consequences to their actions?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the differences in the actions of the humans that live in the Eastern hemisphere to those who live in the Western hemisphere during the timequake.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how life is suspended on auto-pilot during the timequake and what are the negative effects of living life without free will.

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