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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?
(a) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about needing the government's aid in suppressing harmful words and images.
(b) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about the Second Amendment.
(c) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about gun control.
(d) His sarcasm refer to the remark he makes about suppressing harmful words and images on his own.

2. What is the best reason for why Vonnegut's family keeps his mother's insanity and suicide a secret?
(a) They are hoping to avoid repelling prospective in-laws.
(b) They are saddened by her illness and death.
(c) They are embarrassed.
(d) They are in denial.

3. What do many of Vonnegut's books, including this one, not include?
(a) Social groups.
(b) Individual human beings.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Fantasy creatures.

4. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?
(a) Human figures.
(b) A horizon.
(c) Color.
(d) Organization.

5. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What features imperialism, the capture of other societies' lands, and treasure by arms?

2. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?

3. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?

4. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?

5. What is one thing Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future?

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