View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The gestation period of 'possums is twelve days and Indian elephants twenty-two months. What does the author believe is the gestation period for American liberty?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 200 years.

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

3. 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?
(a) Divorce and remarry.
(b) Create art.
(c) Write.
(d) Have an unhappy marriage.

4. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?
(a) Vonnegut sees nothing wrong with encouraging the general public to carry military weapons.
(b) He finds them to be entertaining.
(c) He would like to be able to join Heston in the commercials.
(d) Vonnegut believes military weapons, like loathsome germs, kill people every day and does not approve of the commercials.

5. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?
(a) Casualties.
(b) Their hearts.
(c) Their weights.
(d) Their appetites.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?

3. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?

4. What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails?

5. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 275 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample