1. What actually happened in Dresden? To what use does Vonnegut put these events in his story? What views of America can we see in the novel? Is Vonnegut endorsing one or more of them? 2. The book begins "All this happened, more or less." Why does the novel begin with a metanarrative chapter describing the author’s life and the process of writing the novel, instead of beginning "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time"?
3. Why does Vonnegut introduce the Tralfamadorians? That is, why did he make his "famous Dresden book" into science fiction? Does the character of Kilgore Trout help us understand this?
4. Why is the novel so fragmented? How does this structure contribute to the meaning of the story?
5. What is the point of the refrain "so it goes"? Why is it repeated so often through the novel?
6. What role does the act of reading play in the novel?

Which inequality is represented by this graph? f(0, 1)

Coming to school each day, having the necessary materials, and to do homework students to be successful in school. choose the answer that is the most effective substitute for the underlined part of the sentence. if no substitute is necessary, choose ‘leave as is.’ a) leave as is. b) coming to school each day, have the necessary materials, and do homework c) come to school each day, having the necessary materials, and to do homework d) coming to school each day, having the necessary materials, and doing homework

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.