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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel about the state of people's portable souls does Jane ask Vonnegut to read?
(a) Blood Brothers.
(b) The Brothers Karamazov.
(c) The Brothers Grimm.
(d) Blood Diamond.

2. 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 not at home.
(c) He does not answer the phone.
(d) He is dead of a heart attack.

3. 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) Have an unhappy marriage.
(b) Divorce and remarry.
(c) Write.
(d) Create art.

4. He compares his adventures at Lake Maxincuckee to what explorer?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Franz Ferdinand.
(c) Leif Ericson.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

5. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?
(a) SS Psychiatrist.
(b) SS Indianapolis.
(c) SS Auschwitz.
(d) SS Therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Father desperate for uncritical female friendship?

2. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?

3. Who buys the lake house but allows Vonnegut and his bride to honeymoon there?

4. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?

5. Why does the Spanish Civil War give Hemingway material rather than World War I?

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