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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Reverend oppose?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Using fertility drugs to become pregnant.
(c) stemcell research.
(d) The demi-god given right to consider any idea one wants.

2. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?
(a) SUNY Purchase.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Fordham.
(d) NYU.

3. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?
(a) Midwesterners.
(b) The Mayans of Central America.
(c) The people in "Skyscraper National Park."
(d) Native North Americans.

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

5. What features imperialism, the capture of other societies' lands, and treasure by arms?
(a) "The House of Mirth."
(b) "Hocus Pocus."
(c) "The Nation."
(d) "Le Petit Prince."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?

2. What ethnic groups does the Attorney General's Commission label as "terrorists" whenever possible?

3. To what does Vonnegut compare the lyrics of the new requiem setting?

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

5. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?

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