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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 Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?
(a) They have been so foreshortened.
(b) There are more writers.
(c) There are more people being born.
(d) They are very young.

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

3. Why is Vonnegut drawn to the text?
(a) Vonnegut does would like to know the meaning of the Requiem, but does not understand Latin.
(b) The composer has made several grammatical mistakes in the English text.
(c) The English translation, to Vonnegut, is beautiful, and a work of genius.
(d) It is an English translation that, to Vonnegut, speaks of sadism and masochism.

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

5. How is the character Bill Pilgrim different from Joe Crone?
(a) Bill Pilgrim commits suicide, while Joe Crone become a doctor.
(b) Bill Pilgrim is shy and sad, while Joe Crone is an enthusiastic extrovert.
(c) Joe Crone starves himself to death, while Bill Pilgrim returns home to become an optometrist.
(d) They are from different cities in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?

2. What is the date of Vonnegut's requiem's premier?

3. Who is the model for Vonnegut's Bill Pilgrim in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?

4. He says his father is a rarity among Hoosiers. What other fantasy creature does the author compare his father to?

5. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?

(see the answer key)

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