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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut's late grandfather, Bernard, whom Vonnegut never meets, scorn?
(a) His grandchildren.
(b) His son, Kurt Vonnegut Sr..
(c) His high school, Warren Central.
(d) His birthplace, Indianapolis.

3. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?
(a) They love to create work for collectors.
(b) They like to receive criticism from third parties.
(c) They constantly ask for approval from critics, curators, and collectors.
(d) They are happiest when they do not have to worry about other's opinions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?

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

4. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?

5. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?

(see the answer key)

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