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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) A painter's machine.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Early sketches.
(d) Ideas from critics.

2. In Fates Worse Than Death, humorist Kurt Vonnegut examines the blindness of the American people to the hypocrisy of what administration?
(a) Carter Administration.
(b) Clinton Administration.
(c) Smith Administration.
(d) Reagan Administration.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?

2. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?

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

4. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?

5. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?

(see the answer key)

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