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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 weights.
(b) Their appetites.
(c) Casualties.
(d) Their hearts.

2. What happens to all writers?
(a) Their stories grow more optimistic with each passing year.
(b) They grow dated.
(c) They grow to be better writers.
(d) They become more famous with age.

3. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?
(a) Gluten Deficiency.
(b) Auto-Immune Deficiency.
(c) Folk Society Deficiency.
(d) Vitamin B Deficiency.

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

5. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?
(a) Racism.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Corporal punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Indianapolis what other U.S. city is designed by the architect L'Enfant?

2. What do the free speech provisions of the First Amendment make Vonnegut want to do?

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

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

5. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?

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