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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut wish his father had insisted he study?
(a) Law.
(b) Painting.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Engineering.

3. What does Vonnegut tell 1990 graduates of the University of Rhode Island?
(a) He wishes he could have been a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
(b) College is a waste of time, and they should make the world their university.
(c) Colleges should spread the important stuff over four years, instead of saving it all up for the very end.
(d) They should enjoy this day, because real life begins tomorrow.

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

5. 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) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.
(d) The Bill of Rights' 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 Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

3. 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?

4. What do the free speech provisions of the First Amendment make Vonnegut want to do?

5. The Reverend wants which amendment to conform to his version of Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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