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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Attorney General's Commission compares anything that sounds like the Sermon on the Mount to what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Marxism.

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

3. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?
(a) He finds them to be entertaining.
(b) Vonnegut sees nothing wrong with encouraging the general public to carry military weapons.
(c) Vonnegut believes military weapons, like loathsome germs, kill people every day and does not approve of the commercials.
(d) He would like to be able to join Heston in the commercials.

4. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) World War I.
(b) His writing.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) His cats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut's degree in anthropology teach him about villains?

2. 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?

3. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

4. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

5. What art form does Kurt Vonnegut Sr. take up after he retires?

(see the answer key)

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