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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author have die glamorously in an airplane crash into Mt. Kilimanjaro?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(c) Pierre August Renoir.
(d) Edith Wharton.

2. What novel about the state of people's portable souls does Jane ask Vonnegut to read?
(a) The Brothers Grimm.
(b) Blood Diamond.
(c) Blood Brothers.
(d) The Brothers Karamazov.

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

4. What does the U.S. allow for 100 years before diagnosing it as a social disease and fighting it?
(a) Civil war.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Depression.
(d) Slavery.

5. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?
(a) Abstract Expressionism.
(b) Post Modernism.
(c) Photo Realism.
(d) Impressionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Vonnegut compare the lyrics of the new requiem setting?

2. With whom does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique?

3. What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails?

4. Why does Vonnegut believe Christians have no alternative but to hate and then kill in imaginary self-defense?

5. Where does Vonnegut attempt to get his own requiem mass translated into Latin but is denied?

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