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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?
(a) A wooden canoe.
(b) His first map of the world.
(c) Imaginary friends.
(d) Camp fires.

2. What is the date of Vonnegut's requiem's premier?
(a) March 13, 1988.
(b) March 13, 1998.
(c) October 13, 1988.
(d) October 13, 1998.

3. How do the author and Jill meet?
(a) At a baseball game.
(b) At a production of a Vonnegut play.
(c) At an art gallery.
(d) At a movie premiere.

4. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?
(a) He receives very little for his masterpiece.
(b) He does not like the how it ends.
(c) He fears he will not be able to create another masterpiece.
(d) He does not think it is a masterpiece.

5. The gestation period of 'possums is twelve days and Indian elephants twenty-two months. What does the author believe is the gestation period for American liberty?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What practical joke does Vonnegut play at an ROTC inspection?

2. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?

3. What limits Algren's popularity?

4. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?

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

(see the answer key)

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