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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut tell 1990 graduates of the University of Rhode Island?

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

3. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

4. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

5. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?

(see the answer key)

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