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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?
(a) Liberty's lusty birth cries.
(b) The ringing of the Liberty Bell.
(c) The cry for freedom.
(d) Cries of love for all people.

3. Vonnegut defends what freedom?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Freedom of religion.
(d) Freedom of assembly.

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

5. What does Vonnegut wish his father had insisted he study?
(a) Painting.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Law.
(d) Architecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what author's work does Vonnegut compare the Bill of Rights' First Amendment?

2. What ethnic groups does the Attorney General's Commission label as "terrorists" whenever possible?

3. This book is the sequel to what other book?

4. What do the free speech provisions of the First Amendment make Vonnegut want to do?

5. In what year does the author's father die?

(see the answer key)

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