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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to all writers?
(a) They grow dated.
(b) Their stories grow more optimistic with each passing year.
(c) They become more famous with age.
(d) They grow to be better writers.

2. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?
(a) Mozambicans.
(b) Presidents Bush and Reagan.
(c) Third World Countries.
(d) Western Civilization builds weapons and convinces civilians to hate groups of humanity, but they do not want big wars.

3. Why does Vonnegut like to write pieces for Architectural Digest?
(a) As a tribute to his son, Mark.
(b) He loves architecture.
(c) He is an architect.
(d) As a tribute to his father and grandfather.

4. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?
(a) Camp Atterbury.
(b) High school.
(c) College.
(d) Camp Harrison.

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 Therapist.
(b) SS Psychiatrist.
(c) SS Indianapolis.
(d) SS Auschwitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the infant that the Vonneguts adopt?

2. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?

3. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?

4. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?

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

(see the answer key)

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