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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?
(a) They love to create work for collectors.
(b) They constantly ask for approval from critics, curators, and collectors.
(c) They are happiest when they do not have to worry about other's opinions.
(d) They like to receive criticism from third parties.

2. The author pictures his father as what fictional character waiting for a prince to awaken his career?
(a) Sleeping Beauty.
(b) Porky Pig.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Snow White.

3. Kurt Vonnegut Sr. is respected and loved as a founder of what museum?
(a) The Museum of Natural History.
(b) The Children's Museum.
(c) The Indianapolis Museum of Art.
(d) The Indianapolis 500 Museum.

4. Why do psychiatrists believe Mark is a misdiagnosed depressive?
(a) They do not believe that one can recover from schizophrenia.
(b) They do not believe that one can recover from bipolar disorder.
(c) Mark seems sad.
(d) Mark has all the symptoms of someone who is depressed.

5. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?
(a) Imaginary friends.
(b) Camp fires.
(c) A wooden canoe.
(d) His first map of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vonnegut uses examinations of history, literature, psychology and what else to move his story forward?

2. Who founds the Indianapolis chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1955?

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

4. He says his father is a rarity among Hoosiers. What other fantasy creature does the author compare his father to?

5. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

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