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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Corporal punishment.
(c) Racism.
(d) Sexism.

2. Does Vonnegut believe that most civilians can be considered a "well-regulated militia?"
(a) Not unless they are recruited, led, motivated, or restrained by anything but their own perceptions.
(b) Only men can be part of a militia.
(c) Most civilians can be considered a "well-regulated militia."
(d) Only those civilians who pass a test should be considered part of a militia.

3. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) Jackson Pollock.
(b) Keith Haring.
(c) Mary Cassatt.
(d) George Segal.

4. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?
(a) The "Marxist Society" stage.
(b) The "Folk Society" stage.
(c) The "Modern Society" stage.
(d) The "Fauvist Society" stage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Indianapolis what other U.S. city is designed by the architect L'Enfant?

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?

3. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?

4. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?

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

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