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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Vonnegut an advocate for translators?
(a) He believes translators should be paid the same royalties as authors.
(b) He pays translators to write his books.
(c) He is a translator.
(d) He believes translators are more important than authors.

2. The Attorney General's Commission believes that sufferers of what disease get what they deserve?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heart disease.

3. Who is Vonnegut's favorite translator, with whom he falls in platonic love?
(a) Rita Rait.
(b) Roberta Rambelli.
(c) Ramon Ramone.
(d) Rachel Ray.

4. Vonnegut laments that people can say atrocious things in public, but he is charged with encouraging what?
(a) violent protests.
(b) vulgar language.
(c) violence against women and kiddy porn.
(d) violence against ethnic minorities.

5. What is the date of Vonnegut's requiem's premier?
(a) March 13, 1988.
(b) March 13, 1998.
(c) October 13, 1998.
(d) October 13, 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

2. The "Religious Revival" Vonnegut describes has two commandments. What are they?

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

4. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.

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

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