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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does the traditional requiem ask?
(a) Entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven by Saint Peter.
(b) Sinners to be damned to Hell for all eternity.
(c) A heaven filled with angels playing harps.
(d) Eternal rest for the dead, where God's light perpetually shines on them.

2. Who is the model for Vonnegut's Bill Pilgrim in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
(a) Jane Seymour.
(b) Joe Crone.
(c) Bishop Moore.
(d) Jack Spratt.

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

4. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?
(a) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Pope Pius V.
(d) Pope John II.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?

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

4. With what magazine does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique in 1990 to write an article?

5. What is one thing Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future?

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