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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Freethinkers behave?
(a) They are racist thugs.
(b) They behave well, because they are motivated by the idea of heaven and hell.
(c) They behave well, even without the motivation of heaven and hell.
(d) They humiliate those of other descents.

2. The "Religious Revival" Vonnegut describes has two commandments. What are they?
(a) Have no other god but me and other thy father and they mother.
(b) Be free and live in peace.
(c) Stop thinking and obey.
(d) Divide and conquer.

3. According to Vonnegut's speech, what power do the MIT graduates have?
(a) To control the world's resources.
(b) To save the United States from self-destruction.
(c) To reign in or let loose enormous forces.
(d) To find a job in their city of choice.

4. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?
(a) He is not as intelligent as others in Cape Cod.
(b) He is an Anglo-Saxon.
(c) He is a non-Anglo-Saxon.
(d) He is not as wealthy as other in Cape Cod.

5. What does Vonnegut believe may unite mankind, by creating a generation that does not need to fight to be disillusioned by war?
(a) World peace.
(b) Television.
(c) Unitarianism.
(d) Socialism.

6. What is an example of a book that Vonnegut believes moralizes?
(a) "Lord of the Rings."
(b) "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing."
(c) "Gulliver's Travels."
(d) "Blubber."

7. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?
(a) Sending the Tibetans into exhile.
(b) Romans throwing the Christians to the lions.
(c) Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
(d) Holocaust.

8. Vonnegut's 1990 article in the New York Times observes that American humorists/satirists grow to be what past a certain age?
(a) Intolerably unfunny pessimists.
(b) Grumpy.
(c) Sarcastic old men.
(d) Enthusiastic optimists.

9. Those with addiction eventually hit rock bottom. Vonnegut believes Western Civilization hit rock bottom in World War I. Unlike those with addictions who admit that their addiction is ruining their lives, how does Western Civilization react to hitting rock bottom?
(a) It reacts in a similar way to those who are addicted.
(b) It realizes that its addiction is affecting human life, but it does not care.
(c) It continues to be ignorant of the disease and continues to allow those who are sick to be kept in positions of power.
(d) It buys more electronic devices to distract itself.

10. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?
(a) The Mayans of Central America.
(b) The people in "Skyscraper National Park."
(c) Midwesterners.
(d) Native North Americans.

11. What organization prevents Mozambicans from learning to read and write?
(a) CARE.
(b) World Vision.
(c) WHO.
(d) RENAMO.

12. Although people with acute mental disorder are less often written off as hopeless, why is there still a lack of certainty for patients and their families?
(a) A dozen separate diseases are still lumped together as schizophrenia/manic depression.
(b) Medications can have severe adverse effects.
(c) Most patients still have to be institutionalized.
(d) Psychological testing is dangerous.

13. Why are ex-hippies ashamed to belong to their social class?
(a) They wish they had participated in the Vietnam War.
(b) They despise Vietnam vets.
(c) The social class is so pandered to by the administration that its young do not have to go and do not want to go to war.
(d) They are embarrassed by their actions in the 1960s.

14. To what does Vonnegut compare ignoring distractions and repeating a mantra?
(a) Painting.
(b) Writing.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Reading books.

15. With what magazine does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique in 1990 to write an article?
(a) National Geographic.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Parade.
(d) US News and World Report.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Germans frightening?

2. What other jobs has Vonnegut had?

3. What is World Vision?

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

5. Jane, Vonnegut's first wife, is born a Quaker and dies as a member of what denomination?

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