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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) Ideas from critics.
(b) A painter's machine.
(c) Early sketches.
(d) Intuition.

2. What causes the author's mother's untreated insanity?
(a) Alcohol and prescribed barbituates.
(b) Her addiction to cocaine.
(c) Her mean husband.
(d) A traumatic experience.

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

4. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?
(a) They both paint.
(b) They are both of German descent.
(c) They are both writers.
(d) They love New York City.

5. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?
(a) Bipolar disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Depression.
(d) Anxiety.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?

2. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?

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?

4. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?

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

(see the answer key)

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