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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 wish his father had insisted he study?
(a) Painting.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Law.
(d) Architecture.

2. What practical joke does Vonnegut play at an ROTC inspection?
(a) He dresses like a clown.
(b) He wears every sort of medal he can find.
(c) He wears a Boy Scout uniform.
(d) He tells knock knock jokes.

3. Vonnegut is enthusiastic about Pollock's work, but what does he feel is missing from Pollock's paintings?
(a) Color.
(b) Organization.
(c) A horizon.
(d) Human figures.

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

5. To what does Vonnegut compare the lyrics of the new requiem setting?
(a) The 100 Years War.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Spanish Inquisition.
(d) The Tang Dynasty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Vonnegut good with guns?

2. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?

3. This book is the sequel to what other book?

4. For Vonnegut writing books is like what?

5. The Reverend wants which amendment to conform to his version of Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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