2. Vonnegut laments that people can say atrocious things in public, but he is charged with encouraging what?
(a) vulgar language.
(b) violence against ethnic minorities.
(c) violent protests.
(d) violence against women and kiddy porn.

3. What does Vonnegut miss from his youth?
(a) The Fourth of July Fireworks.
(b) Friends from school.
(c) The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
(d) Freedom from knowing humans will render the planet uninhabitable.

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

5. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?
(a) He receives very little for his masterpiece.
(b) He fears he will not be able to create another masterpiece.
(c) He does not think it is a masterpiece.
(d) He does not like the how it ends.

6. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?
(a) NYU.
(b) SUNY Purchase.
(c) Fordham.
(d) Columbia.

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

8. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?
(a) Early trauma causes mental illness.
(b) A cold is the main cause of mental illness.
(c) Mental illness is caused by the sufferer's environment.
(d) Mental illness is chemically based.

9. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) His writing.
(b) His cats.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War I.

10. Who is the composer who sets Vonnegut's Latin translation to music?
(a) Dame Edna.
(b) Edgar Grana.
(c) Edgar Degas.
(d) Edith Wharton.

11. 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) Have an unhappy marriage.
(c) Write.
(d) Create art.

12. What is the title of the book Jane writes about raising their kids on Cape Cod?
(a) Angels Without Wings.
(b) Angels in Heaven.
(c) On a Wing and a Prayer.
(d) My Children, My Angels.

13. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?
(a) They believe third parties are annoying.
(b) They grow insecure when third parties give their opinions.
(c) They dislike third parties as much as artists.
(d) Writing is tedious, so intruders, or third parties, are refreshing.

14. According to the Attorney General's Commission, what is worth its expensive price tag?
(a) billion-dollar condominiums.
(b) billion-dollar financial institutions.
(c) billion-dollar NASA spacecraft.
(d) billion-dollar airplanes.

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