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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Write.
(c) Divorce and remarry.
(d) Create art.

2. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) O'Hare's death.
(b) the day of his mother's suicide.
(c) His sister's birth.
(d) The day he is first married.

3. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?
(a) He is not as intelligent as others in Cape Cod.
(b) He is not as wealthy as other in Cape Cod.
(c) He is an Anglo-Saxon.
(d) He is a non-Anglo-Saxon.

4. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) His writing.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) His cats.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?

3. What limits Algren's popularity?

4. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

5. The Attorney General's Commission compares anything that sounds like the Sermon on the Mount to what?

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