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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) His writing.
(d) His cats.

2. Whose art does Father celebrate, as if it is a Pieta or Sistine chapel ceiling?
(a) Alice's.
(b) Alex's.
(c) Edith's.
(d) Kurt's.

3. Who is the model for Vonnegut's Bill Pilgrim in SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
(a) Jane Seymour.
(b) Bishop Moore.
(c) Jack Spratt.
(d) Joe Crone.

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

5. What does Vonnegut miss from his youth?
(a) The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
(b) Freedom from knowing humans will render the planet uninhabitable.
(c) The Fourth of July Fireworks.
(d) Friends from school.

6. After high school what does Jill make Manhattan and the world?
(a) A place to take amazing photographs.
(b) Places to avoid.
(c) Her university.
(d) Her new home.

7. What is Vonnegut's sarcasm referring to when he mentions scales falling from his eyes?
(a) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about the Second Amendment.
(b) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about needing the government's aid in suppressing harmful words and images.
(c) His sarcasm refer to the remark he makes about suppressing harmful words and images on his own.
(d) His sarcasm refers to a remark he makes about gun control.

8. The Reverend finds "Slaughterhouse Five", as well as "Deliverance" and "Catcher in the Rye," falling short in what way?
(a) In promoting his religious quest.
(b) In Christian behavior and attitudes.
(c) In Buddhist doctrines.
(d) In engaging society in healthy practices.

9. Why is Algren bitter over his masterpiece, The Man with the Golden Arm?
(a) He does not think it is a masterpiece.
(b) He receives very little for his masterpiece.
(c) He fears he will not be able to create another masterpiece.
(d) He does not like the how it ends.

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

11. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?
(a) Camp Harrison.
(b) College.
(c) Camp Atterbury.
(d) High school.

12. Besides Indianapolis what other U.S. city is designed by the architect L'Enfant?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Baltimore, MD.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Columbus, OH.

13. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?
(a) The Bill of Rights' First Amendment.
(b) President George Bush's call for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning.
(c) President George Bush's support of the NRA.
(d) The NRA militia commercials.

14. The Vonnegut family expects its family members to go out east to college. Where does the author's dad, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., go to college?
(a) MIT.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Harvard.
(d) NYU.

15. Requiem masses are customarily sung in what language?
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Latin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What choir performs Vonnegut's requiem?

2. Vonnegut believes that the goal in the U.S. is only to train intelligent, well-educated people to do what?

3. He compares his adventures at Lake Maxincuckee to what explorer?

4. Vonnegut is the third person in his family to have a one-person show and the second to put in time in a "laughing academy." What is he the first to do?

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

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