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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?
(a) Their hearts.
(b) Their weights.
(c) Casualties.
(d) Their appetites.

2. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?
(a) Civil war.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Depression.
(d) Sexism.

3. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Children.
(b) Animals.
(c) Women and racial minorities.
(d) Elderly people.

4. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?
(a) The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
(b) The American Association of Writers of Historical Fiction.
(c) The American Writers Academy.
(d) The American Actors and Writers Equity.

5. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.
(b) Winning the heart of a woman.
(c) Becoming enlightened.
(d) Winning a battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Vonnegut believe that most civilians can be considered a "well-regulated militia?"

2. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

3. The gestation period of 'possums is twelve days and Indian elephants twenty-two months. What does the author believe is the gestation period for American liberty?

4. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?

5. In which art form does Father show promise before the Great Depression?

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