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

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

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

4. What is his home on Lake Maxincuckee?
(a) An unheated frame cottage on a bluff.
(b) A brownstone apartment
(c) A large cabin in the valley.
(d) A camping tent.

5. What does Vonnegut dream the world will be like in 1,000 years?
(a) There will be no humankind, because the various world leaders will lead their countries into massive wars.
(b) There will be no world in 1,000 years.
(c) German descendants will be running the planet.
(d) There will still be rich and poor, but all will be descendants of people who endure insults without committing suicide or murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vonnegut believes MIT can set an example by adapting what to its undertakings?

2. What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails?

3. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?

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

5. What limits Algren's popularity?

(see the answer key)

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