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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?
(a) The Mayans of Central America.
(b) The people in "Skyscraper National Park."
(c) Native North Americans.
(d) Midwesterners.

2. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?
(a) He is already at the party.
(b) He is dead of a heart attack.
(c) He is not at home.
(d) He does not answer the phone.

3. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?
(a) Photo Realism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Abstract Expressionism.
(d) Post Modernism.

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

5. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?
(a) Hydrogen dioxide.
(b) Hydrochloric acid.
(c) Carbon dioxide.
(d) Hydrofluoric acid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?

2. Why does Vonnegut feel lucky to have been born in Indianapolis?

3. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?

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

5. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?

(see the answer key)

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