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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the model for Vonnegut's Bill Pilgrim in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
(a) Jane Seymour.
(b) Jack Spratt.
(c) Joe Crone.
(d) Bishop Moore.

2. Vonnegut believes MIT can set an example by adapting what to its undertakings?
(a) Oedipus Complex.
(b) The Hippocratic Oath.
(c) The Third Time Step.
(d) The Vonnegut Theory.

3. What pictures would Vonnegut hang if he were president of MIT?
(a) JK Rowling's Harry Potter.
(b) Pictures of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein" monster.
(c) Bob Fosse's Sally Bowles.
(d) Robert Lewis Stevenson's Edward Hyde.

4. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) O'Hare's death.
(b) The day he is first married.
(c) His sister's birth.
(d) the day of his mother's suicide.

5. What is the date of Vonnegut's requiem's premier?
(a) March 13, 1998.
(b) October 13, 1988.
(c) October 13, 1998.
(d) March 13, 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other jobs has Vonnegut had?

2. What does Vonnegut dream the world will be like in 1,000 years?

3. Why are Germans frightening?

4. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?

5. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?

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