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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?
(a) The NRA militia commercials.
(b) The Bill of Rights' First Amendment.
(c) President George Bush's support of the NRA.
(d) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.

2. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?
(a) Vonnegut believes military weapons, like loathsome germs, kill people every day and does not approve of the commercials.
(b) He finds them to be entertaining.
(c) He would like to be able to join Heston in the commercials.
(d) Vonnegut sees nothing wrong with encouraging the general public to carry military weapons.

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. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?
(a) Pope John II.
(b) Pope Pius V.
(c) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?

2. In Fates Worse Than Death, humorist Kurt Vonnegut examines the blindness of the American people to the hypocrisy of what administration?

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

4. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?

5. What does Vonnegut's degree in anthropology teach him about villains?

(see the answer key)

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