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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Father desperate for uncritical female friendship?
(a) His wife is thoughtful and caring.
(b) His daughter is very critical of him.
(c) He has never had a female friend.
(d) His wife says hateful, horrible things to him late at night.

2. 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 dislike third parties as much as artists.
(c) They believe third parties are annoying.
(d) They grow insecure when third parties give their opinions.

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

4. What practical joke does Vonnegut play at an ROTC inspection?
(a) He wears a Boy Scout uniform.
(b) He wears every sort of medal he can find.
(c) He tells knock knock jokes.
(d) He dresses like a clown.

5. 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) Three-fourths.
(b) One-third.
(c) One-half.
(d) Two-thirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the author's mother's untreated insanity?

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

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

4. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?

5. In which art form does Father show promise before the Great Depression?

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