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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Create art.
(b) Write.
(c) Divorce and remarry.
(d) Have an unhappy marriage.

2. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?
(a) College.
(b) Camp Harrison.
(c) High school.
(d) Camp Atterbury.

3. When does Vonnegut get sick?
(a) In the spring.
(b) In the fall.
(c) When he does not get enough sleep.
(d) When it is useful to him.

4. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Winning a battle.
(b) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.
(c) Becoming enlightened.
(d) Winning the heart of a woman.

5. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?
(a) Color.
(b) A horizon.
(c) Organization.
(d) Human figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?

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

3. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?

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

5. Why does the Spanish Civil War give Hemingway material rather than World War I?

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