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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Depression.

2. Vonnegut laments that people can say atrocious things in public, but he is charged with encouraging what?
(a) violence against ethnic minorities.
(b) violent protests.
(c) violence against women and kiddy porn.
(d) vulgar language.

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

4. According to the Attorney General's Commission, what is worth its expensive price tag?
(a) billion-dollar airplanes.
(b) billion-dollar condominiums.
(c) billion-dollar financial institutions.
(d) billion-dollar NASA spacecraft.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?

2. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?

3. What limits Algren's popularity?

4. What does Vonnegut's late grandfather, Bernard, whom Vonnegut never meets, scorn?

5. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?

(see the answer key)

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