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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?
(a) SS Therapist.
(b) SS Auschwitz.
(c) SS Psychiatrist.
(d) SS Indianapolis.

2. Why does Vonnegut become cranky when hearing his requiem performed?
(a) The synthesizer music overpowers the lyrics.
(b) The synthesizer music is not loud enough.
(c) The choir mispronounces the lyrics.
(d) The choir director conducts too quickly.

3. For what does the traditional requiem ask?
(a) Eternal rest for the dead, where God's light perpetually shines on them.
(b) A heaven filled with angels playing harps.
(c) Sinners to be damned to Hell for all eternity.
(d) Entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven by Saint Peter.

4. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?
(a) They constantly ask for approval from critics, curators, and collectors.
(b) They are happiest when they do not have to worry about other's opinions.
(c) They like to receive criticism from third parties.
(d) They love to create work for collectors.

5. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?
(a) Alex's.
(b) Alice's.
(c) Edith's.
(d) Kurt's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?

2. To what does Vonnegut compare the lyrics of the new requiem setting?

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

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

5. Requiem masses are customarily sung in what language?

(see the answer key)

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