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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Early sketches.
(c) Ideas from critics.
(d) A painter's machine.

3. How is the character Bill Pilgrim different from Joe Crone?
(a) Bill Pilgrim is shy and sad, while Joe Crone is an enthusiastic extrovert.
(b) Bill Pilgrim commits suicide, while Joe Crone become a doctor.
(c) Joe Crone starves himself to death, while Bill Pilgrim returns home to become an optometrist.
(d) They are from different cities in the United States.

4. Who does Vonnegut marry in 1979?
(a) Julie Keagan.
(b) Jess Katz.
(c) Jill Krementz.
(d) Jen Klein.

5. In what year does the author's father die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1857.

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

3. Who is the composer of the new requiem setting?

4. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

5. What features imperialism, the capture of other societies' lands, and treasure by arms?

(see the answer key)

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