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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founds the Indianapolis chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1955?
(a) Vonnegut's sister.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(c) Vonnegut's mother.
(d) Vonnegut's Uncle Alex.

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

3. What do Vonnegut's grown children jointly own?
(a) Their childhood home.
(b) The lake house.
(c) A condominium in New York City.
(d) A publishing house.

4. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.
(a) One-third.
(b) One-half.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) Three-fourths.

5. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) Keith Haring.
(b) George Segal.
(c) Mary Cassatt.
(d) Jackson Pollock.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

3. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?

4. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?

5. He compares his adventures at Lake Maxincuckee to what explorer?

(see the answer key)

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