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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do jokes work?
(a) The comedian tells the audience something funny about society that seems outrageous but is true.
(b) Jokes connect the listener to other listeners.
(c) Comedians and the audienceshare a funny moment.
(d) By hooking and releasing the listener, causing the release of fight-or-flight chemicals through laughter.

2. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?
(a) Romans throwing the Christians to the lions.
(b) Sending the Tibetans into exhile.
(c) Holocaust.
(d) Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

3. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Winning the heart of a woman.
(b) Becoming enlightened.
(c) Winning a battle.
(d) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.

4. Even after many years, what is imprinted in Vonnegut's mind?
(a) Lake Maxincuckee where he swims with his siblings.
(b) Geist Lake where he went boating.
(c) Culver Lake where he is a lifeguard.
(d) Lake Michigan where he played in the sand.

5. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?
(a) There are more writers.
(b) They have been so foreshortened.
(c) They are very young.
(d) There are more people being born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

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

3. Why does Vonnegut miss his 50th high school reunion?

4. To what does Vonnegut compare Bush's presidential campaign?

5. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?

(see the answer key)

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