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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) President George Bush's support of the NRA.
(c) The Bill of Rights' First Amendment.
(d) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.

2. What does Vonnegut's degree in anthropology teach him about villains?
(a) The "villains" are culture, society, and history, not drugs.
(b) The "villains" are drugs, sex, and rock and roll.
(c) The "villains" are drugs, theft, and rape, not society.
(d) The "villains" are art, music, and dance, not culture.

3. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) AIDS.

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

5. Even after many years, what is imprinted in Vonnegut's mind?
(a) Lake Michigan where he played in the sand.
(b) Lake Maxincuckee where he swims with his siblings.
(c) Culver Lake where he is a lifeguard.
(d) Geist Lake where he went boating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?

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

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

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

5. In what year does the author's father die?

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