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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) His sister's birth.
(b) the day of his mother's suicide.
(c) The day he is first married.
(d) O'Hare's death.

2. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?
(a) He does not answer the phone.
(b) He is not at home.
(c) He is already at the party.
(d) He is dead of a heart attack.

3. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Winning the heart of a woman.
(b) Becoming enlightened.
(c) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.
(d) Winning a battle.

4. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?
(a) The "Marxist Society" stage.
(b) The "Fauvist Society" stage.
(c) The "Modern Society" stage.
(d) The "Folk Society" stage.

5. 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 dislike third parties as much as artists.
(c) Writing is tedious, so intruders, or third parties, are refreshing.
(d) They grow insecure when third parties give their opinions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to all writers?

2. Why does Vonnegut feel lucky to have been born in Indianapolis?

3. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.

4. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?

5. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

(see the answer key)

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