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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Vonnegut believes MIT can set an example by adapting what to its undertakings? (from Chapter 12)

The Hippocratic Oath.

The Third Time Step.

The Vonnegut Theory.

Oedipus Complex.

2.

What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails? (from Chapter 13)

Land of Darkness.

Heart of Darkness.

The Dark Continent.

Deep in Darkness.

3.

Although people with acute mental disorder are less often written off as hopeless, why is there still a lack of certainty for patients and their families? (from Appendix)

Medications can have severe adverse effects.

Psychological testing is dangerous.

A dozen separate diseases are still lumped together as schizophrenia/manic depression.

Most patients still have to be institutionalized.

4.

Those with addiction eventually hit rock bottom. Vonnegut believes Western Civilization hit rock bottom in World War I. Unlike those with addictions who admit that their addiction is ruining their lives, how does Western Civilization react to hitting rock bottom? (from Chapter 14)

It buys more electronic devices to distract itself.

It continues to be ignorant of the disease and continues to allow those who are sick to be kept in positions of power.

It reacts in a similar way to those who are addicted.

It realizes that its addiction is affecting human life, but it does not care.

5.

When the definition for Schizophrenia has been tightened, how is Mark now classified? (from Appendix)

Manic-depressive.

Suicidal.

Schizophrenic.

Mentally retarded.

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