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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?
(a) The American Writers Academy.
(b) The American Association of Writers of Historical Fiction.
(c) The American Actors and Writers Equity.
(d) The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

2. What does Vonnegut tell 1990 graduates of the University of Rhode Island?
(a) They should enjoy this day, because real life begins tomorrow.
(b) He wishes he could have been a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
(c) College is a waste of time, and they should make the world their university.
(d) Colleges should spread the important stuff over four years, instead of saving it all up for the very end.

3. What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails?
(a) Heart of Darkness.
(b) Land of Darkness.
(c) Deep in Darkness.
(d) The Dark Continent.

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

5. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) His sister's birth.
(b) O'Hare's death.
(c) The day he is first married.
(d) the day of his mother's suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut wish his father had insisted he study?

2. Why is Vonnegut good with guns?

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

4. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

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

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