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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?
(a) College.
(b) High school.
(c) Camp Harrison.
(d) Camp Atterbury.

2. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) His cats.
(d) His writing.

3. What does Vonnegut tell 1990 graduates of the University of Rhode Island?
(a) They should enjoy this day, because real life begins tomorrow.
(b) Colleges should spread the important stuff over four years, instead of saving it all up for the very end.
(c) College is a waste of time, and they should make the world their university.
(d) He wishes he could have been a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.

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

5. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?
(a) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.
(b) The NRA militia commercials.
(c) The Bill of Rights' First Amendment.
(d) President George Bush's support of the NRA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What limits Algren's popularity?

2. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?

3. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?

4. 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?

5. What does Vonnegut believe is declining but could return?

(see the answer key)

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