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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What limits Algren's popularity?
(a) A penchant for truth.
(b) His foul personality.
(c) His distinct odor.
(d) His lack of connections.

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

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

4. Why does the Spanish Civil War give Hemingway material rather than World War I?
(a) The Spanish Civial War has more exciting battles than World War I.
(b) Americans are too upset by World War I.
(c) The U.S. enters World War I too late to have war stories.
(d) Hemingway knows more about the Spanish Civil War than World War I.

5. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?
(a) It is isolated geographically and members agree on what life is about and behave uniformly.
(b) It is a wide-spread belief in diversity and acceptance of others.
(c) It is an organization that encourages country living.
(d) It is an organization that teaches folk dances of various cultures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

2. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

3. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

4. In which art form does Father show promise before the Great Depression?

5. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?

(see the answer key)

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