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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?
(a) Early trauma causes mental illness.
(b) A cold is the main cause of mental illness.
(c) Mental illness is chemically based.
(d) Mental illness is caused by the sufferer's environment.

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

3. Vonnegut Sr. is denied his dreams by what event?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) September 11, 2001.

4. The Attorney General's Commission compares anything that sounds like the Sermon on the Mount to what?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Socialism.

5. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Elderly people.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Women and racial minorities.

6. Why is Vonnegut good with guns?
(a) His dad taught him how to shoot a gun.
(b) He has watched many war movies.
(c) He is a Private First Class.
(d) He is part of the NRA.

7. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Alzheimer's.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Diabetes.

8. He says his father is a rarity among Hoosiers. What other fantasy creature does the author compare his father to?
(a) Unicorn.
(b) Dragon.
(c) Pegasus.
(d) Griffin.

9. What do Vonnegut's grown children jointly own?
(a) A condominium in New York City.
(b) Their childhood home.
(c) A publishing house.
(d) The lake house.

10. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?
(a) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about needing the government's aid in suppressing harmful words and images.
(b) His sarcasm refer to the remark he makes about suppressing harmful words and images on his own.
(c) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about the Second Amendment.
(d) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about gun control.

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

12. What do the free speech provisions of the First Amendment make Vonnegut want to do?
(a) Cheer.
(b) Throw up.
(c) Sing.
(d) Cry.

13. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?
(a) Camp Harrison.
(b) High school.
(c) Camp Atterbury.
(d) College.

14. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) His cats.
(c) World War I.
(d) His writing.

15. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?
(a) The cry for freedom.
(b) Cries of love for all people.
(c) The ringing of the Liberty Bell.
(d) Liberty's lusty birth cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

2. What does Vonnegut's degree in anthropology teach him about villains?

3. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?

4. The Reverend finds "Slaughterhouse Five", as well as "Deliverance" and "Catcher in the Rye," falling short in what way?

5. When does Vonnegut get sick?

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