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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the character Bill Pilgrim different from Joe Crone?
(a) Bill Pilgrim commits suicide, while Joe Crone become a doctor.
(b) They are from different cities in the United States.
(c) Bill Pilgrim is shy and sad, while Joe Crone is an enthusiastic extrovert.
(d) Joe Crone starves himself to death, while Bill Pilgrim returns home to become an optometrist.

2. With what magazine does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique in 1990 to write an article?
(a) Parade.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) National Geographic.
(d) US News and World Report.

3. How does Vonnegut's trip to Mozambique make him feel?
(a) Motivated.
(b) Enthusiastic.
(c) Emotionally empty.
(d) Physically drained.

4. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?
(a) Columbia.
(b) NYU.
(c) SUNY Purchase.
(d) Fordham.

5. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?
(a) Noah's Ark, as a sinking vessel with half its animals already dead.
(b) Adam and Eve not taking a bite from the forbidden fruit.
(c) The Last Supper, with Jesus accusing Mark instead of Judas.
(d) Buddha sitting by the tree, but not becoming enlightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the composer who sets Vonnegut's Latin translation to music?

2. Why does Vonnegut become cranky when hearing his requiem performed?

3. Requiem masses are customarily sung in what language?

4. With whom does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique?

5. Who is the composer of the new requiem setting?

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