Fates Worse Than Death Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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Fates Worse Than Death Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is World Vision?
(a) An American optometrist organization bringing glasses to the underpriveledged.
(b) An American Christian charity bringing supplies to refugees.
(c) A Buddhist charity bringing peace to other cultures.
(d) A Muslim organization bringing the teachings of Mohammed to other cultures.

2. Why is Vonnegut drawn to the text?
(a) It is an English translation that, to Vonnegut, speaks of sadism and masochism.
(b) The composer has made several grammatical mistakes in the English text.
(c) The English translation, to Vonnegut, is beautiful, and a work of genius.
(d) Vonnegut does would like to know the meaning of the Requiem, but does not understand Latin.

3. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?
(a) The Last Supper, with Jesus accusing Mark instead of Judas.
(b) Noah's Ark, as a sinking vessel with half its animals already dead.
(c) Buddha sitting by the tree, but not becoming enlightened.
(d) Adam and Eve not taking a bite from the forbidden fruit.

4. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?
(a) Columbia.
(b) SUNY Purchase.
(c) Fordham.
(d) NYU.

5. In his letter to the future, what does Vonnegut say today's rulers are doing to Nature's stern but reasonable surrender terms?
(a) Limiting waste.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Conserving energy.
(d) Working towards a peacable agreement.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vonnegut's trip to Mozambique make him feel?

2. Who is the composer who sets Vonnegut's Latin translation to music?

3. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

4. Who is the model for Vonnegut's Bill Pilgrim in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?

5. With whom does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique?

(see the answer key)

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