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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Corporal punishment.
(d) Racism.

3. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?
(a) SS Therapist.
(b) SS Psychiatrist.
(c) SS Auschwitz.
(d) SS Indianapolis.

4. Even after many years, what is imprinted in Vonnegut's mind?
(a) Culver Lake where he is a lifeguard.
(b) Lake Maxincuckee where he swims with his siblings.
(c) Geist Lake where he went boating.
(d) Lake Michigan where he played in the sand.

5. Why does Vonnegut become cranky when hearing his requiem performed?
(a) The choir mispronounces the lyrics.
(b) The synthesizer music overpowers the lyrics.
(c) The choir director conducts too quickly.
(d) The synthesizer music is not loud enough.

6. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.
(a) One-third.
(b) Two-thirds.
(c) Three-fourths.
(d) One-half.

7. How do the author and Jill meet?
(a) At a production of a Vonnegut play.
(b) At a baseball game.
(c) At a movie premiere.
(d) At an art gallery.

8. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Becoming enlightened.
(b) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.
(c) Winning the heart of a woman.
(d) Winning a battle.

9. Vonnegut defends what freedom?
(a) Freedom of religion.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom of assembly.

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

11. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?
(a) They love New York City.
(b) They are both of German descent.
(c) They both paint.
(d) They are both writers.

12. What ethnic groups does the Attorney General's Commission label as "terrorists" whenever possible?
(a) Afghanis.
(b) Palestinians.
(c) Iraqis.
(d) Israelis.

13. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?
(a) Depression.
(b) Civil war.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Sexism.

14. What causes the author's mother's untreated insanity?
(a) Her addiction to cocaine.
(b) A traumatic experience.
(c) Her mean husband.
(d) Alcohol and prescribed barbituates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

2. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?

3. Why is Vonnegut good with guns?

4. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?

5. Kurt Vonnegut Sr. is respected and loved as a founder of what museum?

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