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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Vonnegut is the third person in his family to have a one-person show and the second to put in time in a "laughing academy." What is he the first to do?
(a) Have an unhappy marriage.
(b) Divorce and remarry.
(c) Create art.
(d) Write.

3. Why do psychiatrists believe Mark is a misdiagnosed depressive?
(a) Mark seems sad.
(b) They do not believe that one can recover from schizophrenia.
(c) They do not believe that one can recover from bipolar disorder.
(d) Mark has all the symptoms of someone who is depressed.

4. Vonnegut uses examinations of history, literature, psychology and what else to move his story forward?
(a) fashion.
(b) automobiles.
(c) art.
(d) dance.

5. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?
(a) Kurt's.
(b) Edith's.
(c) Alex's.
(d) Alice's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut's degree in anthropology teach him about villains?

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

3. What is his home on Lake Maxincuckee?

4. What do Vonnegut's grown children jointly own?

5. What novel about the state of people's portable souls does Jane ask Vonnegut to read?

(see the answer key)

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