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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the author's mother's untreated insanity?
(a) Her addiction to cocaine.
(b) Alcohol and prescribed barbituates.
(c) A traumatic experience.
(d) Her mean husband.

2. What practical joke does Vonnegut play at an ROTC inspection?
(a) He dresses like a clown.
(b) He wears a Boy Scout uniform.
(c) He tells knock knock jokes.
(d) He wears every sort of medal he can find.

3. Who buys the lake house but allows Vonnegut and his bride to honeymoon there?
(a) His sister.
(b) A stranger.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His friend O'Hare.

4. Vonnegut Sr. is denied his dreams by what event?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) September 11, 2001.

5. What do Vonnegut's grown children jointly own?
(a) The lake house.
(b) Their childhood home.
(c) A publishing house.
(d) A condominium in New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the book Jane writes about raising their kids on Cape Cod?

2. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?

3. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?

4. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?

5. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?

(see the answer key)

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