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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 create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?
(a) Camp fires.
(b) His first map of the world.
(c) A wooden canoe.
(d) Imaginary friends.

2. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?
(a) Speak slowly and carefully.
(b) Speak stupidly and gain popularity.
(c) Speak rudely and arrogantly.
(d) Speak cautiously and quietly.

3. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?
(a) Edith's.
(b) Alice's.
(c) Alex's.
(d) Kurt's.

4. Why does the Spanish Civil War give Hemingway material rather than World War I?
(a) Hemingway knows more about the Spanish Civil War than World War I.
(b) The Spanish Civial War has more exciting battles than World War I.
(c) The U.S. enters World War I too late to have war stories.
(d) Americans are too upset by World War I.

5. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best reason for why Vonnegut's family keeps his mother's insanity and suicide a secret?

2. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?

3. The Reverend finds "Slaughterhouse Five", as well as "Deliverance" and "Catcher in the Rye," falling short in what way?

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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