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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Animals.
(b) Women and racial minorities.
(c) Elderly people.
(d) Children.

2. Vonnegut is the third person in his family to have a one-person show and the second to put in time in a "laughing academy." What is he the first to do?
(a) Have an unhappy marriage.
(b) Divorce and remarry.
(c) Write.
(d) Create art.

3. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) A painter's machine.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Ideas from critics.
(d) Early sketches.

4. What happens to all writers?
(a) They become more famous with age.
(b) They grow dated.
(c) They grow to be better writers.
(d) Their stories grow more optimistic with each passing year.

5. What does Vonnegut wish his father had insisted he study?
(a) Painting.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Law.
(d) Engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

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

3. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?

4. What limits Algren's popularity?

5. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?

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