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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Vonnegut an advocate for translators?
(a) He believes translators are more important than authors.
(b) He believes translators should be paid the same royalties as authors.
(c) He is a translator.
(d) He pays translators to write his books.

2. What does Vonnegut require of translators?
(a) They must do as he says.
(b) They must be more gifted writers than he and speak at least two languages, including his.
(c) They must speak Italian, English, as well as another language.
(d) They must ask him many questions about his work.

3. Who is Vonnegut's favorite translator, with whom he falls in platonic love?
(a) Rita Rait.
(b) Rachel Ray.
(c) Roberta Rambelli.
(d) Ramon Ramone.

4. How do the MIT students react to Vonnegut's speech?
(a) They are appalled by his speech.
(b) They are convinced and accept his challenge.
(c) They cheer enthusiastically.
(d) They applaud politely but do not take him seriously.

5. What Joseph Conrad novel depicts whites as highly evolved and others as monkeys without tails?
(a) Deep in Darkness.
(b) Heart of Darkness.
(c) The Dark Continent.
(d) Land of Darkness.

6. How does Vonnegut's trip to Mozambique make him feel?
(a) Enthusiastic.
(b) Emotionally empty.
(c) Physically drained.
(d) Motivated.

7. How does Mark feel about the 1960s?
(a) Mark does not remember the 1960s.
(b) They are even more spaced-out, flaky, ,and self-absorbed times than depicted in movies.
(c) They are not spaced-out, flaky, or self-absorbed times as depicted in movies.
(d) They are just as spaced-out, flaky, and self-absorbed times as depicted in movies.

8. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, how many hours of television Failures of Christianity (murders) has one watched by graduation?
(a) 800 hours.
(b) 18,000 hours.
(c) 8,000 hours.
(d) 80 hours.

9. What German-American movement did not survive?
(a) The German-American Freethinker movement.
(b) The Deutchland movement.
(c) The German-American Quaker movement.
(d) The Pennsylvania Dutch movement.

10. The "Religious Revival" Vonnegut describes has two commandments. What are they?
(a) Divide and conquer.
(b) Be free and live in peace.
(c) Have no other god but me and other thy father and they mother.
(d) Stop thinking and obey.

11. Who is the author of THE KILIMANJARO DEVICE?
(a) Ray Bradbury.
(b) Mark Vonnegut.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(d) Jane Austen.

12. What is World Vision?
(a) An American Christian charity bringing supplies to refugees.
(b) A Buddhist charity bringing peace to other cultures.
(c) An American optometrist organization bringing glasses to the underpriveledged.
(d) A Muslim organization bringing the teachings of Mohammed to other cultures.

13. Who does the author have die glamorously in an airplane crash into Mt. Kilimanjaro?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(b) Pierre August Renoir.
(c) Edith Wharton.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

14. Why are ex-hippies ashamed to belong to their social class?
(a) They wish they had participated in the Vietnam War.
(b) They are embarrassed by their actions in the 1960s.
(c) They despise Vietnam vets.
(d) The social class is so pandered to by the administration that its young do not have to go and do not want to go to war.

15. What is Mark's only crime against his government?
(a) Disrespect.
(b) Identity theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sponsors Vonnegut's 1990 trip to Mozambique?

2. What is the name of the Bishop Vonnegut travels with to the Galapagos?

3. Vonnegut compares the young people he addresses to what character in Camelot?

4. How does Rita Rait become the winner of a limerick contest?

5. Why does Rait believe she can say whatever she pleases in English?

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