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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choir performs Vonnegut's requiem?
(a) Universalist Unitarian choir.
(b) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
(c) United Methodist choir.
(d) Hindu choir.

2. What does Vonnegut's late grandfather, Bernard, whom Vonnegut never meets, scorn?
(a) His son, Kurt Vonnegut Sr..
(b) His grandchildren.
(c) His high school, Warren Central.
(d) His birthplace, Indianapolis.

3. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?
(a) Carbon dioxide.
(b) Hydrofluoric acid.
(c) Hydrochloric acid.
(d) Hydrogen dioxide.

4. How does Vonnegut describe Reagan's and Bush's war experiences?
(a) Reagan was a PFC, as was Vonnegut, and Bush was an aviator and war hero.
(b) Neither of them had war experiences.
(c) One experiences warfare in sanitized movies and the other as an aviator who never has to see his victims.
(d) Both had extensive experiences as members of the military.

5. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?
(a) College.
(b) Camp Atterbury.
(c) Camp Harrison.
(d) High school.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Vonnegut's speech, what power do the MIT graduates have?

2. Who is the composer who sets Vonnegut's Latin translation to music?

3. Why does Vonnegut miss his 50th high school reunion?

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

5. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?

(see the answer key)

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