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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?
(a) The Bill of Rights' First Amendment.
(b) President George Bush's support of the NRA.
(c) The NRA militia commercials.
(d) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.

2. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Women and racial minorities.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Elderly people.

3. After high school what does Jill make Manhattan and the world?
(a) Places to avoid.
(b) Her new home.
(c) A place to take amazing photographs.
(d) Her university.

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

5. 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?
(a) The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography.
(b) The Attorney General's Commission Civil Rights.
(c) The Attorney General's Commission on Religious Freedom.
(d) The Attorney General's Commission on Gun Control.

Short Answer 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?

2. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?

3. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?

4. Why are certain words in Rait's limerick replaced with the sound "dah" when recited on the BBC?

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

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