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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Fates Worse Than Death, humorist Kurt Vonnegut examines the blindness of the American people to the hypocrisy of what administration?
(a) Reagan Administration.
(b) Smith Administration.
(c) Clinton Administration.
(d) Carter Administration.

2. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?
(a) Photo Realism.
(b) Post Modernism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Abstract Expressionism.

3. 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) NYU.
(b) Harvard.
(c) MIT.
(d) UCLA.

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

5. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?
(a) Hip hop.
(b) Photography.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Ballet.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?

4. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?

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

(see the answer key)

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