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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Vonnegut believe that most civilians can be considered a "well-regulated militia?"
(a) Not unless they are recruited, led, motivated, or restrained by anything but their own perceptions.
(b) Most civilians can be considered a "well-regulated militia."
(c) Only men can be part of a militia.
(d) Only those civilians who pass a test should be considered part of a militia.

2. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) Ideas from critics.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Early sketches.
(d) A painter's machine.

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

4. The gestation period of 'possums is twelve days and Indian elephants twenty-two months. What does the author believe is the gestation period for American liberty?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 200 years.
(d) 20 years.

5. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?
(a) Folk Society Deficiency.
(b) Vitamin B Deficiency.
(c) Gluten Deficiency.
(d) Auto-Immune Deficiency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?

2. What is the best reason for why Vonnegut's family keeps his mother's insanity and suicide a secret?

3. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

4. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

5. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?

(see the answer key)

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