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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?
(a) A wooden canoe.
(b) Camp fires.
(c) His first map of the world.
(d) Imaginary friends.

2. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?
(a) Ballet.
(b) Photography.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Hip hop.

3. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?
(a) Mozambicans.
(b) Presidents Bush and Reagan.
(c) Third World Countries.
(d) Western Civilization builds weapons and convinces civilians to hate groups of humanity, but they do not want big wars.

4. With whom does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique?
(a) Bill Pilgrim.
(b) John Yale.
(c) Jill Krementz.
(d) Mark Vonnegut.

5. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?
(a) The NRA militia commercials.
(b) The Bill of Rights' First Amendment.
(c) President George Bush's support of the NRA.
(d) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut's late grandfather, Bernard, whom Vonnegut never meets, scorn?

2. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?

3. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

4. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?

5. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?

(see the answer key)

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