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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?
(a) Speak cautiously and quietly.
(b) Speak slowly and carefully.
(c) Speak stupidly and gain popularity.
(d) Speak rudely and arrogantly.

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

3. What does Vonnegut's degree in anthropology teach him about villains?
(a) The "villains" are art, music, and dance, not culture.
(b) The "villains" are culture, society, and history, not drugs.
(c) The "villains" are drugs, sex, and rock and roll.
(d) The "villains" are drugs, theft, and rape, not society.

4. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?
(a) Winning a battle.
(b) Becoming enlightened.
(c) Winning the heart of a woman.
(d) Males feeling love for one another in proximity to danger.

5. What is Vonnegut's opinion of Charlton Heston's commercials advocating that civilians keep military weapons?
(a) He would like to be able to join Heston in the commercials.
(b) Vonnegut believes military weapons, like loathsome germs, kill people every day and does not approve of the commercials.
(c) Vonnegut sees nothing wrong with encouraging the general public to carry military weapons.
(d) He finds them to be entertaining.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?

2. Vonnegut's 1990 article in the New York Times observes that American humorists/satirists grow to be what past a certain age?

3. Vonnegut Sr. is denied his dreams by what event?

4. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?

5. What is the title of the book Jane writes about raising their kids on Cape Cod?

(see the answer key)

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