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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) Mary Cassatt.
(b) Jackson Pollock.
(c) Keith Haring.
(d) George Segal.

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

3. Vonnegut Sr. is denied his dreams by what event?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) September 11, 2001.

4. Dr. Nancy Andreassen finds that people in what profession tend to be depressive or come from depressive families more often than in the general public?
(a) Writing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

5. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?
(a) The cry for freedom.
(b) Cries of love for all people.
(c) The ringing of the Liberty Bell.
(d) Liberty's lusty birth cries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?

2. What is the name of the Bishop Vonnegut travels with to the Galapagos?

3. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?

4. Why is Father desperate for uncritical female friendship?

5. Vonnegut uses examinations of history, literature, psychology and what else to move his story forward?

(see the answer key)

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