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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Winning a battle.
(b) Winning the heart of a woman.
(c) Becoming enlightened.
(d) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.

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

3. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?
(a) Sexism.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Depression.
(d) Civil war.

4. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?
(a) A wooden canoe.
(b) Imaginary friends.
(c) Camp fires.
(d) His first map of the world.

5. What does the Reverend oppose?
(a) The demi-god given right to consider any idea one wants.
(b) stemcell research.
(c) Using fertility drugs to become pregnant.
(d) Divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vonnegut defends what freedom?

2. According to the Attorney General's Commission, what is worth its expensive price tag?

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

4. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?

5. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?

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