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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?
(a) Speak slowly and carefully.
(b) Speak stupidly and gain popularity.
(c) Speak cautiously and quietly.
(d) Speak rudely and arrogantly.

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

3. Why is Vonnegut good with guns?
(a) He is part of the NRA.
(b) He has watched many war movies.
(c) His dad taught him how to shoot a gun.
(d) He is a Private First Class.

4. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, how many hours of television Failures of Christianity (murders) has one watched by graduation?
(a) 18,000 hours.
(b) 80 hours.
(c) 800 hours.
(d) 8,000 hours.

5. How is the character Bill Pilgrim different from Joe Crone?
(a) Bill Pilgrim is shy and sad, while Joe Crone is an enthusiastic extrovert.
(b) Bill Pilgrim commits suicide, while Joe Crone become a doctor.
(c) Joe Crone starves himself to death, while Bill Pilgrim returns home to become an optometrist.
(d) They are from different cities in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Attorney General's Commission compares anything that sounds like the Sermon on the Mount to what?

2. Who is Vonnegut's favorite translator, with whom he falls in platonic love?

3. How are Vonnegut and Elie Wiesel the same?

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

5. How do the author and Jill meet?

(see the answer key)

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