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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Jane Cox's relatives question her marriage to Vonnegut?
(a) They think she is too young to marry.
(b) They worry about her getting mixed up with Germans.
(c) They do not trust Vonnegut.
(d) They think she is not healthy enough to marry.

3. The Reverend wants which amendment to conform to his version of Christianity?
(a) The Twenty-First Amendment.
(b) The Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
(c) The First Amendment.
(d) The Second Amendment.

4. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?
(a) There are more people being born.
(b) They are very young.
(c) They have been so foreshortened.
(d) There are more writers.

5. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?
(a) Their appetites.
(b) Casualties.
(c) Their weights.
(d) Their hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Father desperate for uncritical female friendship?

2. Who founds the Indianapolis chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1955?

3. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?

4. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?

5. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?

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