1. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?
(a) Color.
(b) Human figures.
(c) A horizon.
(d) Organization.

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

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

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

5. The Attorney General's Commission compares anything that sounds like the Sermon on the Mount to what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why did Jane Cox's relatives question her marriage to Vonnegut?

4. What novel about the state of people's portable souls does Jane ask Vonnegut to read?

5. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?

(see the answer key)

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