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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Vonnegut get sick?
(a) When it is useful to him.
(b) In the spring.
(c) In the fall.
(d) When he does not get enough sleep.

2. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?
(a) Hydrochloric acid.
(b) Carbon dioxide.
(c) Hydrofluoric acid.
(d) Hydrogen dioxide.

3. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) Jackson Pollock.
(b) Mary Cassatt.
(c) George Segal.
(d) Keith Haring.

4. Vonnegut is the third person in his family to have a one-person show and the second to put in time in a "laughing academy." What is he the first to do?
(a) Create art.
(b) Have an unhappy marriage.
(c) Divorce and remarry.
(d) Write.

5. In which art form does Father show promise before the Great Depression?
(a) Printmaking.
(b) Pottery.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?

2. What does Vonnegut wish his father had insisted he study?

3. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?

4. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?

5. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?

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