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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vonnegut is the third person in his family to have a one-person show and the second to put in time in a "laughing academy." What is he the first to do?
(a) Divorce and remarry.
(b) Write.
(c) Have an unhappy marriage.
(d) Create art.

2. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?
(a) Hydrogen dioxide.
(b) Hydrofluoric acid.
(c) Hydrochloric acid.
(d) Carbon dioxide.

3. What do the free speech provisions of the First Amendment make Vonnegut want to do?
(a) Throw up.
(b) Cheer.
(c) Sing.
(d) Cry.

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

5. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?
(a) They grow insecure when third parties give their opinions.
(b) They dislike third parties as much as artists.
(c) Writing is tedious, so intruders, or third parties, are refreshing.
(d) They believe third parties are annoying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?

2. When does Vonnegut get sick?

3. What limits Algren's popularity?

4. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?

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

(see the answer key)

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