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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What limits Algren's popularity?
(a) His lack of connections.
(b) His distinct odor.
(c) His foul personality.
(d) A penchant for truth.

2. How many Americans are of German descent?
(a) One half.
(b) One in one hundred.
(c) One in four.
(d) One in three.

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

4. What is the name of the infant that the Vonneguts adopt?
(a) Leslie.
(b) Rose.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Lily.

5. What does Vonnegut believe most ancient writings, including the Bible, do?
(a) Demonize.
(b) Moralize.
(c) Mystify.
(d) Degrade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

2. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?

3. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

4. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

5. What practical joke does Vonnegut play at an ROTC inspection?

(see the answer key)

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