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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the infant that the Vonneguts adopt?
(a) Leslie.
(b) Rose.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Lily.

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

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

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

5. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Racism.
(d) Corporal punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?

2. What is one thing Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future?

3. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?

4. What do many of Vonnegut's books, including this one, not include?

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

(see the answer key)

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