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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city is the American Academy of Arts and Letters located?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York City.
(c) Atlanta, Ga.
(d) Buffalo, NY.

2. Whose brains does Fleon study?
(a) Those who are Irish and Scotish.
(b) People of the Mensa and those who die in stupid accidents.
(c) Those who are old and young.
(d) Those who are American and Chinese.

3. What nearly crushes Prince after the timequake ends?
(a) A falling chandelier.
(b) A truck.
(c) A tree.
(d) A door.

4. What is the response from the person Vonnegut writes to when he is restless about his writing?
(a) His prose was turned into poetry.
(b) To go on a vacation.
(c) To take a sebatical.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who makes several insightful observations about the events at the party?
(a) Vonnegut.
(b) Lily.
(c) Trout.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Fleon prepare to go to?

2. What does the author believe should be repudiated now that he is older?

3. Where was the atomic bomb invented?

4. Where does Fleon acquire the brains he examines?

5. Why do no emergency response teams ever come to anyone's help?

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