Tough-O-Meter

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(5) Tree Line

Mother Night offers pretty straightforward prose and a clipped pace. There's no tricky business here, folks. On the other hand, Vonnegut's narrator is a writer who prides himself on a good turn of phrase, so depending on where you are in your SAT vocab prep, you may need to look up a term here and there. But overall, there's nothing to worry about here.