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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?
(a) SUNY Purchase.
(b) Columbia.
(c) NYU.
(d) Fordham.

3. Who is the composer of the new requiem setting?
(a) Andrew Lloyd Webber.
(b) Celine Dion.
(c) Josh Groban.
(d) Robert Samels.

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

5. What is the title of the book Jane writes about raising their kids on Cape Cod?
(a) On a Wing and a Prayer.
(b) Angels Without Wings.
(c) Angels in Heaven.
(d) My Children, My Angels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?

2. 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?

3. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?

4. Who is the composer who sets Vonnegut's Latin translation to music?

5. What choir performs Vonnegut's requiem?

(see the answer key)

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