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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Vonnegut compare Bush's presidential campaign?
(a) East Germany propaganda.
(b) Pornographic sleaze.
(c) Nazi propaganda.
(d) Perfect example of democracy.

2. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) His sister's birth.
(b) The day he is first married.
(c) O'Hare's death.
(d) the day of his mother's suicide.

3. What causes the author's mother's untreated insanity?
(a) A traumatic experience.
(b) Her mean husband.
(c) Her addiction to cocaine.
(d) Alcohol and prescribed barbituates.

4. How do the author and Jill meet?
(a) At a baseball game.
(b) At a production of a Vonnegut play.
(c) At a movie premiere.
(d) At an art gallery.

5. After high school what does Jill make Manhattan and the world?
(a) Her new home.
(b) Her university.
(c) Places to avoid.
(d) A place to take amazing photographs.

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

3. Why did Jane Cox's relatives question her marriage to Vonnegut?

4. What does Vonnegut believe may unite mankind, by creating a generation that does not need to fight to be disillusioned by war?

5. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?

(see the answer key)

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