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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) Keith Haring.
(b) Jackson Pollock.
(c) Mary Cassatt.
(d) George Segal.

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

4. Who buys the lake house but allows Vonnegut and his bride to honeymoon there?
(a) His sister.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His friend O'Hare.
(d) A stranger.

5. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?
(a) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about needing the government's aid in suppressing harmful words and images.
(b) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about the Second Amendment.
(c) His sarcasm refer to the remark he makes about suppressing harmful words and images on his own.
(d) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about gun control.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut believe it is time to hear?

3. What other jobs has Vonnegut had?

4. What happens to Algren that keeps Vonnegut from asking if Rushdie may join them at his party?

5. What does Vonnegut tell 1990 graduates of the University of Rhode Island?

(see the answer key)

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