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  What recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut's works is a science fiction author who often acts as Vonnegut's voice in the story? see if you know the answer
Answered: 327 times
Correct: 259 times (64.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 68 times (17.0%)
Skipped: 74 times (18.5%)
  According to Kurt Vonnegut in his book Cat's Cradle, what is the fictional substance that has been created to act as a more stable substitute to one of earth's elements?
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Answered: 904 times
Correct: 824 times (85.4%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 80 times (8.3%)
Skipped: 61 times (6.3%)
  Other than books, what other work did Kurt Vonnegut produce? see if you know the answer
Answered: 263 times
Correct: 128 times (27.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 135 times (28.5%)
Skipped: 210 times (44.4%)
  The phrases "So it goes," "So be it," "And so on," and "Etc" are commonly used to end passages by what author? see if you know the answer
Answered: 116 times
Correct: 110 times (85.3%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 6 times (4.7%)
Skipped: 13 times (10.1%)
  What is the name of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s character that has become "unstuck" in time? see if you know the answer
Answered: 230 times
Correct: 171 times (59.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 59 times (20.5%)
Skipped: 58 times (20.1%)
  Brave New World is by?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. H.G. Wells Aldous Huxley George Orwell 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 1595 times
Correct: 1475 times (90.3%)
Difficulty: very easy
Incorrect: 120 times (7.3%)
Skipped: 39 times (2.4%)
  What is considered the supreme act of worship of the Bokononists that is called 'boku-maru'? Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Jr. see if you know the answer
Answered: 1442 times
Correct: 1041 times (41.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 401 times (16.0%)
Skipped: 1060 times (42.4%)
  Which Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel is partly famous for its continuous use of the phrase, "So it goes." see if you know the answer
Answered: 2172 times
Correct: 1845 times (71.4%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 327 times (12.7%)
Skipped: 411 times (15.9%)
  What city is firebombed in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five? see if you know the answer
Answered: 912 times
Correct: 847 times (81.1%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 65 times (6.2%)
Skipped: 132 times (12.6%)
  In Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., what is the name of the hand-held computer brought to the islands? see if you know the answer
Answered: 134 times
Correct: 59 times (27.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 75 times (35.4%)
Skipped: 78 times (36.8%)
  Kurt Vonnegut Jr. claims he wrote all his stories with this person in mind. see if you know the answer
Answered: 98 times
Correct: 26 times (17.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 72 times (48.3%)
Skipped: 51 times (34.2%)
  Which of the following is not true about Kurt Vonnegut Jr.? see if you know the answer
Answered: 110 times
Correct: 62 times (39.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 48 times (30.2%)
Skipped: 49 times (30.8%)
  Complete the Bokononist calypso:

"Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly
Man got to..."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cat's Cradle 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 228 times
Correct: 177 times (63.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 51 times (18.2%)
Skipped: 52 times (18.6%)
  ____________ wrote A Confederacy of Dunces.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.   John Updike   Bret Easton Ellis   John Kennedy Toole 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 224 times
Correct: 167 times (69.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 57 times (23.6%)
Skipped: 18 times (7.4%)
  In his novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut discusses the Allied bombing during WW II of which of the German cities listed below?Kurt Vonnegut see if you know the answer
Answered: 94 times
Correct: 83 times (77.6%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 11 times (10.3%)
Skipped: 13 times (12.1%)
  In Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, what is the name of the book Kilgore Trout gives Dwayne Hoover to read while the two are sitting in the Holiday Inn?Kurt Vonnegut see if you know the answer
Answered: 56 times
Correct: 22 times (26.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 34 times (40.5%)
Skipped: 28 times (33.3%)
  Which of the Kurt Vonnegut characters listed below is a wealthy philanthropist?Kurt Vonnegut see if you know the answer
Answered: 66 times
Correct: 54 times (53.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 12 times (11.9%)
Skipped: 35 times (34.7%)
  What is the subtitle of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions?Kurt Vonnegut see if you know the answer
Answered: 63 times
Correct: 39 times (44.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 24 times (27.3%)
Skipped: 25 times (28.4%)
  Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle begins with what line?

Dodie Smith 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 573 times
Correct: 311 times (35.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 262 times (29.5%)
Skipped: 314 times (35.4%)
  who wrote the following?

I wanted all
things to seem to
make some sense,
so we could all
be happy, yes, instead
of tense. And I
made up lies, so
they all fit nice,
and I made this
sad world a
paradise.

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Answered: 172 times
Correct: 78 times (33.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 94 times (40.9%)
Skipped: 58 times (25.2%)
 
From which Kurt Vonnegut book is the following quote?

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"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 461 times
Correct: 172 times (29.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 289 times (49.9%)
Skipped: 118 times (20.4%)
  "If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

This quote belongs to which author? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 287 times
Correct: 142 times (43.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 145 times (44.1%)
Skipped: 42 times (12.8%)
  Five orphaned teenagers are trapped in an endless building with a machine that makes them do strange things for food. What book is this? see if you know the answer
Answered: 823 times
Correct: 409 times (36.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 414 times (36.7%)
Skipped: 305 times (27.0%)
  In which Kurt Vonnegut book does he create his own fictional religion? see if you know the answer
Answered: 5429 times
Correct: 2944 times (36.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 2485 times (30.6%)
Skipped: 2691 times (33.1%)
  What have these works in common? The Narnia series, Pullman's Dark Materials series, and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5?

C.S. Lewis   Philip Pullman   Kurt Vonnegut 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 475 times
Correct: 371 times (70.8%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 104 times (19.8%)
Skipped: 49 times (9.4%)
  Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle begins with the statement, "Call me Jonah." This opening sentence is an allusion to the beginning of which famous work of fiction? see if you know the answer
Answered: 8082 times
Correct: 7104 times (75.7%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 978 times (10.4%)
Skipped: 1306 times (13.9%)
  In Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, what substance threatens to end civilization as we know it?
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Answered: 941 times
Correct: 645 times (45.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 296 times (21.0%)
Skipped: 468 times (33.2%)
  According to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, what planet are the one-handed, one-eyed captors of Billy Pilgrim from? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1136 times
Correct: 846 times (53.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 290 times (18.2%)
Skipped: 459 times (28.8%)
  The Dedication to Arthur C. Clarke's Report on Planet 3 reads: "In accordance with the terms of the Clarke/_____ treaty, the second best science writer dedicates this book to the second best science fiction writer." see if you know the answer
Answered: 96 times
Correct: 57 times (41.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 39 times (28.5%)
Skipped: 41 times (29.9%)
  In several of Kurt Vonnegut's books his experience as POW in a German city destroyed by Allied bombing at the end of World War II comes to the fore. Which is the city in question? see if you know the answer
Answered: 441 times
Correct: 367 times (66.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 74 times (13.4%)
Skipped: 113 times (20.4%)
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