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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do psychiatrists believe Mark is a misdiagnosed depressive?
(a) Mark has all the symptoms of someone who is depressed.
(b) They do not believe that one can recover from bipolar disorder.
(c) They do not believe that one can recover from schizophrenia.
(d) Mark seems sad.

2. 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?
(a) UCLA.
(b) NYU.
(c) MIT.
(d) Harvard.

3. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?
(a) They believe third parties are annoying.
(b) They grow insecure when third parties give their opinions.
(c) They dislike third parties as much as artists.
(d) Writing is tedious, so intruders, or third parties, are refreshing.

4. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?
(a) They share a German surname.
(b) They are both Jewish.
(c) They both have pet dogs.
(d) They are cousins.

5. The Reverend wants which amendment to conform to his version of Christianity?
(a) The Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
(b) The Second Amendment.
(c) The Twenty-First Amendment.
(d) The First Amendment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vonnegut laments that people can say atrocious things in public, but he is charged with encouraging what?

2. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

3. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?

4. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?

5. Dr. Nancy Andreassen finds that people in what profession tend to be depressive or come from depressive families more often than in the general public?

(see the answer key)

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