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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choir performs Vonnegut's requiem?
(a) United Methodist choir.
(b) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
(c) Universalist Unitarian choir.
(d) Hindu choir.

2. To what author's work does Vonnegut compare the Bill of Rights' First Amendment?
(a) Michael Crichton.
(b) J.K. Rowling.
(c) Dr. Dre.
(d) Dr. Seuss.

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

4. What novel about the state of people's portable souls does Jane ask Vonnegut to read?
(a) Blood Diamond.
(b) Blood Brothers.
(c) The Brothers Grimm.
(d) The Brothers Karamazov.

5. What is the best reason for why Vonnegut's family keeps his mother's insanity and suicide a secret?
(a) They are in denial.
(b) They are embarrassed.
(c) They are hoping to avoid repelling prospective in-laws.
(d) They are saddened by her illness and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Reverend oppose?

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

3. What happens to all writers?

4. Even after many years, what is imprinted in Vonnegut's mind?

5. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?

(see the answer key)

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