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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?
(a) They like to receive criticism from third parties.
(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 love to create work for collectors.

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

4. The Vonnegut family expects its family members to go out east to college. Where does the author's dad, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., go to college?
(a) UCLA.
(b) MIT.
(c) NYU.
(d) Harvard.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Jane Cox's relatives question her marriage to Vonnegut?

4. What is his home on Lake Maxincuckee?

5. This book is the sequel to what other book?

(see the answer key)

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