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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?
(a) Vitamin B Deficiency.
(b) Gluten Deficiency.
(c) Folk Society Deficiency.
(d) Auto-Immune Deficiency.

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

3. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?
(a) The Mayans of Central America.
(b) Native North Americans.
(c) Midwesterners.
(d) The people in "Skyscraper National Park."

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) Have an unhappy marriage.
(b) Divorce and remarry.
(c) Create art.
(d) Write.

5. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.
(a) One-half.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) Three-fourths.
(d) One-third.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut miss his 50th high school reunion?

2. What does Vonnegut tell 1990 graduates of the University of Rhode Island?

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

4. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?

5. What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails?

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