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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?
(a) Vonnegut sees nothing wrong with encouraging the general public to carry military weapons.
(b) He would like to be able to join Heston in the commercials.
(c) He finds them to be entertaining.
(d) Vonnegut believes military weapons, like loathsome germs, kill people every day and does not approve of the commercials.

2. What is his home on Lake Maxincuckee?
(a) A camping tent.
(b) A brownstone apartment
(c) A large cabin in the valley.
(d) An unheated frame cottage on a bluff.

3. The Reverend wants which amendment to conform to his version of Christianity?
(a) The Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
(b) The Twenty-First Amendment.
(c) The Second Amendment.
(d) The First Amendment.

4. Who is the composer of the new requiem setting?
(a) Josh Groban.
(b) Robert Samels.
(c) Andrew Lloyd Webber.
(d) Celine Dion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut like to write pieces for Architectural Digest?

2. Vonnegut defends what freedom?

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

4. Why did Jane Cox's relatives question her marriage to Vonnegut?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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