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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. How does Vonnegut feel about socialism in Chapter 25?

2. What is Trout's advice to people after the timequake ends?

3. What assassin does Vonnegut mention?

4. How did Vonnegut's grandfather's second wife treat his children?

5. Who does Vonnegut confess his deep love to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vonnegut type his work on?

2. Describe Vonnegut's step grandmother.

3. What does Trout do when the timequake ends?

4. How did Vonnegut's step grandmother affect him and the other grandchildren?

5. What does Vonnegut want in a family?

6. Discuss what Vonnegut sees as the difference between his work and his brother's.

7. What does Vonnegut think a future study should be?

8. What happens to traffic after the timequake ends?

9. What did Vonnegut turn down to go to college instead?

10. What does Trout find after the timequake that he becomes destructive with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and explain how humans begin to see evolution failing its inhabitants. What is observed in "Timequake" to bring about this idea?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the presentation of events in "Timequake" in connection to Vonnegut's death. How do they parallel?

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