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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Vonnegut meet his first wife?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) An art gallery.
(c) The symphony.
(d) An automobile race.

2. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Diabetes.

3. How is Vonnegut an advocate for translators?
(a) He believes translators are more important than authors.
(b) He believes translators should be paid the same royalties as authors.
(c) He is a translator.
(d) He pays translators to write his books.

4. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?
(a) Pottawatomie.
(b) Aztec-girls.
(c) Epta mayan-boys.
(d) Black Feathers.

5. Why is Vonnegut good with guns?
(a) He is part of the NRA.
(b) His dad taught him how to shoot a gun.
(c) He is a Private First Class.
(d) He has watched many war movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?

2. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, how many hours of television Failures of Christianity (murders) has one watched by graduation?

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

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

5. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?

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