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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ethnic groups does the Attorney General's Commission label as "terrorists" whenever possible?
(a) Palestinians.
(b) Iraqis.
(c) Israelis.
(d) Afghanis.

2. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) Early sketches.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Ideas from critics.
(d) A painter's machine.

3. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?
(a) He is not as intelligent as others in Cape Cod.
(b) He is not as wealthy as other in Cape Cod.
(c) He is a non-Anglo-Saxon.
(d) He is an Anglo-Saxon.

4. What are heavy among the writers Vonnegut cares about?
(a) Casualties.
(b) Their weights.
(c) Their appetites.
(d) Their hearts.

5. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) O'Hare's death.
(b) the day of his mother's suicide.
(c) The day he is first married.
(d) His sister's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author's father die?

2. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?

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

4. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?

5. He compares his adventures at Lake Maxincuckee to what explorer?

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