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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Three-fourths.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-third.

2. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?
(a) They are both of German descent.
(b) They both paint.
(c) They are both writers.
(d) They love New York City.

3. What novel about the state of people's portable souls does Jane ask Vonnegut to read?
(a) Blood Brothers.
(b) Blood Diamond.
(c) The Brothers Karamazov.
(d) The Brothers Grimm.

4. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?
(a) Writing is tedious, so intruders, or third parties, are refreshing.
(b) They believe third parties are annoying.
(c) They dislike third parties as much as artists.
(d) They grow insecure when third parties give their opinions.

5. 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) Create art.
(b) Divorce and remarry.
(c) Have an unhappy marriage.
(d) Write.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. He compares his adventures at Lake Maxincuckee to what explorer?

3. What practical joke does Vonnegut play at an ROTC inspection?

4. What is the title of the book Jane writes about raising their kids on Cape Cod?

5. In Fates Worse Than Death, humorist Kurt Vonnegut examines the blindness of the American people to the hypocrisy of what administration?

(see the answer key)

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