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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?
(a) Photography.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Ballet.
(d) Hip hop.

2. Who buys the lake house but allows Vonnegut and his bride to honeymoon there?
(a) His uncle.
(b) A stranger.
(c) His friend O'Hare.
(d) His sister.

3. 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.

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

5. What government authority has several of its members involved in financial or sexual atrocities, as well as advocating for civilians to be armed with assault rifles?
(a) The Attorney General's Commission on Gun Control.
(b) The Attorney General's Commission Civil Rights.
(c) The Attorney General's Commission on Religious Freedom.
(d) The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?

2. What happens to all writers?

3. According to the Attorney General's Commission, what is worth its expensive price tag?

4. What is the title of the book Jane writes about raising their kids on Cape Cod?

5. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?

(see the answer key)

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