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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Vonnegut's grown children jointly own?
(a) Their childhood home.
(b) The lake house.
(c) A publishing house.
(d) A condominium in New York City.

2. The Vonnegut family expects its family members to go out east to college. Where does the author's dad, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., go to college?
(a) NYU.
(b) Harvard.
(c) UCLA.
(d) MIT.

3. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?
(a) Alice's.
(b) Kurt's.
(c) Edith's.
(d) Alex's.

4. In THE NATION what does Vonnegut claim is the U.S.'s most nurturing contribution to planetary culture?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Modern Dance.
(c) Abstract Expressionism.
(d) Alcoholics Anonymous.

5. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?
(a) Third World Countries.
(b) Mozambicans.
(c) Western Civilization builds weapons and convinces civilians to hate groups of humanity, but they do not want big wars.
(d) Presidents Bush and Reagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Indianapolis what other U.S. city is designed by the architect L'Enfant?

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

3. What happens to all writers?

4. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

5. How does Vonnegut believe a writer's opinion about vocal third parties differs from that of a visual artist?

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