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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kurt Vonnegut Sr. is respected and loved as a founder of what museum?
(a) The Indianapolis 500 Museum.
(b) The Indianapolis Museum of Art.
(c) The Museum of Natural History.
(d) The Children's Museum.

2. Why does Vonnegut feel lucky to have been born in Indianapolis?
(a) It is a beautiful city.
(b) He treasures the friendships he made in Indianapolis.
(c) Indianapolis is the center of the art world.
(d) He receives a rich and humane primary and secondary education.

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

4. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?
(a) Their appetites.
(b) Casualties.
(c) Their hearts.
(d) Their weights.

5. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?
(a) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about gun control.
(b) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about needing the government's aid in suppressing harmful words and images.
(c) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about the Second Amendment.
(d) His sarcasm refer to the remark he makes about suppressing harmful words and images on his own.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the Attorney General's Commission, what is worth its expensive price tag?

3. Vonnegut Sr. is denied his dreams by what event?

4. Vonnegut uses examinations of history, literature, psychology and what else to move his story forward?

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

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