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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 Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) His writing.
(c) His cats.
(d) World War I.

2. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?
(a) He does not think it is a masterpiece.
(b) He does not like the how it ends.
(c) He fears he will not be able to create another masterpiece.
(d) He receives very little for his masterpiece.

3. Why does the general at the ROTC inspection write down Vonnegut's name, which seems to lead to Vonnegut never rising above Private First Class?
(a) Vonnegut argues with the general.
(b) Vonnegut arrives late to the inspection.
(c) The general thinks Vonnegut is not a good soldier.
(d) Vonnegut plays a practical joke.

4. He compares his adventures at Lake Maxincuckee to what explorer?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Franz Ferdinand.
(d) Leif Ericson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who translates Vonnegut's requiem into Latin?

2. For what does the traditional requiem ask?

3. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?

4. 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?

5. Even after many years, what is imprinted in Vonnegut's mind?

(see the answer key)

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