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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut miss his 50th high school reunion?
(a) His plane is delayed.
(b) He catches pneumonia.
(c) He forgets the date of his reunion.
(d) He contracts Lyme disease.

2. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) George Segal.
(b) Jackson Pollock.
(c) Mary Cassatt.
(d) Keith Haring.

3. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Animals.
(b) Women and racial minorities.
(c) Elderly people.
(d) Children.

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

5. What does Vonnegut's late grandfather, Bernard, whom Vonnegut never meets, scorn?
(a) His son, Kurt Vonnegut Sr..
(b) His grandchildren.
(c) His birthplace, Indianapolis.
(d) His high school, Warren Central.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?

2. What happens to all writers?

3. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?

4. Why does Vonnegut feel lucky to have been born in Indianapolis?

5. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

(see the answer key)

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