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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 one thing Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future?
(a) Future generations need to use more petroleum for fuel.
(b) Countries in the future should stop communicating with one another.
(c) Today's rulers need to stop thinking science can fix anything for $1 trillion.
(d) Leaders of the future should fix the environment issues through scientific discoveries.

2. What choir performs Vonnegut's requiem?
(a) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
(b) Hindu choir.
(c) United Methodist choir.
(d) Universalist Unitarian choir.

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

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

5. Who translates Vonnegut's requiem into Latin?
(a) Collin F. Johnson.
(b) Collin P. Miller.
(c) John F. Collins.
(d) Thomas R. Collins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

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

3. To what does Vonnegut compare the lyrics of the new requiem setting?

4. For what does the traditional requiem ask?

5. What is World Vision?

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