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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe is the cause of mental illness?
(a) Early trauma causes mental illness.
(b) Mental illness is chemically based.
(c) Mental illness is caused by the sufferer's environment.
(d) A cold is the main cause of mental illness.

2. How does Rita Rait become the winner of a limerick contest?
(a) She wins the prize left by an eccentric British millionaire for the wittiest original limerick.
(b) She creates a competition and enters her own work.
(c) She is married to the judge.
(d) She is the best limerick writer in Russia.

3. To what author's work does Vonnegut compare the Bill of Rights' First Amendment?
(a) J.K. Rowling.
(b) Michael Crichton.
(c) Dr. Seuss.
(d) Dr. Dre.

4. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?
(a) Elderly people.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Women and racial minorities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Father desperate for uncritical female friendship?

2. How is Vonnegut an advocate for translators?

3. To what does Vonnegut compare Bush's presidential campaign?

4. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?

5. What limits Algren's popularity?

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