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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?
(a) Hydrofluoric acid.
(b) Hydrochloric acid.
(c) Hydrogen dioxide.
(d) Carbon dioxide.

2. Who enacts the Latin requiem text in 1570?
(a) Pope Pius V.
(b) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(c) Pope John II.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

3. What is the name of the infant that the Vonneguts adopt?
(a) Rose.
(b) Lily.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Leslie.

4. The author pictures his father as what fictional character waiting for a prince to awaken his career?
(a) Cinderella.
(b) Snow White.
(c) Porky Pig.
(d) Sleeping Beauty.

5. What is the date of Vonnegut's requiem's premier?
(a) October 13, 1998.
(b) March 13, 1988.
(c) October 13, 1988.
(d) March 13, 1998.

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

7. What does Vonnegut believe is the United State's only true art form prior to Jackson Pollock's work?
(a) Photography.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Hip hop.
(d) Ballet.

8. Dr. Nancy Andreassen finds that people in what profession tend to be depressive or come from depressive families more often than in the general public?
(a) Writing.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Painting.

9. What limits Algren's popularity?
(a) A penchant for truth.
(b) His foul personality.
(c) His lack of connections.
(d) His distinct odor.

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

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

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

13. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?
(a) Teaching English.
(b) Running her own restaurant.
(c) Marrying a wealthy man.
(d) Her photography and children's books.

14. Who is the Cody, Wyoming, artist who is America's foremost adventurer in the Abstract Expressionist movement?
(a) Jackson Pollock.
(b) George Segal.
(c) Keith Haring.
(d) Mary Cassatt.

15. He says his father is a rarity among Hoosiers. What other fantasy creature does the author compare his father to?
(a) Unicorn.
(b) Griffin.
(c) Pegasus.
(d) Dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribal name do the Vonneguts give themselves?

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

3. Of what consisting of upper and lower houses is Hemingway a member?

4. Besides Indianapolis what other U.S. city is designed by the architect L'Enfant?

5. Why do psychiatrists believe Mark is a misdiagnosed depressive?

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