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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut feel lucky to have been born in Indianapolis?
(a) It is a beautiful city.
(b) He receives a rich and humane primary and secondary education.
(c) He treasures the friendships he made in Indianapolis.
(d) Indianapolis is the center of the art world.

2. Why does the Spanish Civil War give Hemingway material rather than World War I?
(a) Hemingway knows more about the Spanish Civil War than World War I.
(b) Americans are too upset by World War I.
(c) The Spanish Civial War has more exciting battles than World War I.
(d) The U.S. enters World War I too late to have war stories.

3. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?
(a) He does not answer the phone.
(b) He is dead of a heart attack.
(c) He is not at home.
(d) He is already at the party.

4. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?
(a) Marrying a wealthy man.
(b) Her photography and children's books.
(c) Running her own restaurant.
(d) Teaching English.

5. In what year does the author's father die?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1977.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who buys the lake house but allows Vonnegut and his bride to honeymoon there?

2. Vonnegut uses examinations of history, literature, psychology and what else to move his story forward?

3. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?

4. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?

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

(see the answer key)

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