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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 believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?
(a) Photography.
(b) Hip hop.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Ballet.

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

3. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Women and racial minorities.
(b) Elderly people.
(c) Children.
(d) Animals.

4. The gestation period of 'possums is twelve days and Indian elephants twenty-two months. What does the author believe is the gestation period for American liberty?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 100 years.

5. For what does the traditional requiem ask?
(a) Sinners to be damned to Hell for all eternity.
(b) Eternal rest for the dead, where God's light perpetually shines on them.
(c) Entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven by Saint Peter.
(d) A heaven filled with angels playing harps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?

2. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?

3. What do the free speech provisions of the First Amendment make Vonnegut want to do?

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

5. Vonnegut compares the young people he addresses to what character in Camelot?

(see the answer key)

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