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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?
(a) Cries of love for all people.
(b) Liberty's lusty birth cries.
(c) The ringing of the Liberty Bell.
(d) The cry for freedom.

3. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Ballet.
(c) Photography.
(d) Hip hop.

4. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?
(a) He does not like the how it ends.
(b) He receives very little for his masterpiece.
(c) He fears he will not be able to create another masterpiece.
(d) He does not think it is a masterpiece.

5. 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) The U.S. enters World War I too late to have war stories.
(c) Americans are too upset by World War I.
(d) Hemingway knows more about the Spanish Civil War than World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?

2. What limits Algren's popularity?

3. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?

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

5. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?

(see the answer key)

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