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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) Edith Wharton.
(b) Pierre August Renoir.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?
(a) It is isolated geographically and members agree on what life is about and behave uniformly.
(b) It is an organization that teaches folk dances of various cultures.
(c) It is a wide-spread belief in diversity and acceptance of others.
(d) It is an organization that encourages country living.

3. What is one thing Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future?
(a) Future generations need to use more petroleum for fuel.
(b) Today's rulers need to stop thinking science can fix anything for $1 trillion.
(c) Leaders of the future should fix the environment issues through scientific discoveries.
(d) Countries in the future should stop communicating with one another.

4. What does Vonnegut say happens to American literary history, that "generations" of writers are separated by less than twenty years?
(a) They are very young.
(b) They have been so foreshortened.
(c) There are more writers.
(d) There are more people being born.

5. Why does Rait believe she can say whatever she pleases in English?
(a) She is very opinionated.
(b) She likes speaking in English.
(c) She is a non-native speaker.
(d) She believes that what she has to say is important.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Attorney General's Commission compares anything that sounds like the Sermon on the Mount to what?

2. Who is nearing economic, legal, and social equality only in Vonnegut's lifetime?

3. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?

4. What does the Reverend oppose?

5. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

(see the answer key)

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