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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?
(a) The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
(b) The American Actors and Writers Equity.
(c) The American Writers Academy.
(d) The American Association of Writers of Historical Fiction.

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

3. What does Vonnegut wish his father had insisted he study?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Law.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Painting.

4. Why does Vonnegut feel lucky to have been born in Indianapolis?
(a) It is a beautiful city.
(b) He receives a rich and humane primary and secondary education.
(c) He treasures the friendships he made in Indianapolis.
(d) Indianapolis is the center of the art world.

5. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?
(a) Liberty's lusty birth cries.
(b) Cries of love for all people.
(c) The cry for freedom.
(d) The ringing of the Liberty Bell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?

3. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?

4. What happens to all writers?

5. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?

(see the answer key)

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