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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.
(a) One-half.
(b) One-third.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) Three-fourths.

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

3. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?
(a) He is not as intelligent as others in Cape Cod.
(b) He is not as wealthy as other in Cape Cod.
(c) He is a non-Anglo-Saxon.
(d) He is an Anglo-Saxon.

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

5. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?
(a) They have been so foreshortened.
(b) There are more people being born.
(c) There are more writers.
(d) They are very young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

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

3. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

4. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?

5. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?

(see the answer key)

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