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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?
(a) Depression.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

2. Why do psychiatrists believe Mark is a misdiagnosed depressive?
(a) Mark has all the symptoms of someone who is depressed.
(b) They do not believe that one can recover from schizophrenia.
(c) They do not believe that one can recover from bipolar disorder.
(d) Mark seems sad.

3. What will bust up all cultures and create a Third-World planet?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Communism.

4. Those with addiction eventually hit rock bottom. Vonnegut believes Western Civilization hit rock bottom in World War I. Unlike those with addictions who admit that their addiction is ruining their lives, how does Western Civilization react to hitting rock bottom?
(a) It realizes that its addiction is affecting human life, but it does not care.
(b) It reacts in a similar way to those who are addicted.
(c) It buys more electronic devices to distract itself.
(d) It continues to be ignorant of the disease and continues to allow those who are sick to be kept in positions of power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the author and Jill meet?

2. In what year does the author's father die?

3. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?

4. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?

5. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?

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