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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are certain words in Rait's limerick replaced with the sound "dah" when recited on the BBC?
(a) It sounds funny.
(b) Rait made this adjustment to her limerick.
(c) This sound replaces dirty language.
(d) The limerick is too long.

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

4. Who sponsors Vonnegut's 1990 trip to Mozambique?
(a) Audobon Society.
(b) FREEDOM.
(c) CARE.
(d) World Vision.

5. To what does Vonnegut compare Bush's presidential campaign?
(a) Pornographic sleaze.
(b) Nazi propaganda.
(c) East Germany propaganda.
(d) Perfect example of democracy.

6. For Vonnegut writing books is like what?
(a) Eating a peanut butter sandwich.
(b) Singing a song.
(c) Riding a bike.
(d) Any other job.

7. What is a scheme of self-defense that only maligned and oppressed minorities should be allowed to use?
(a) Threats.
(b) Humor.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Murder.

8. What pictures would Vonnegut hang if he were president of MIT?
(a) Bob Fosse's Sally Bowles.
(b) JK Rowling's Harry Potter.
(c) Robert Lewis Stevenson's Edward Hyde.
(d) Pictures of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein" monster.

9. Those with addiction eventually hit rock bottom. Vonnegut believes Western Civilization hit rock bottom in World War I. Unlike those with addictions who admit that their addiction is ruining their lives, how does Western Civilization react to hitting rock bottom?
(a) It buys more electronic devices to distract itself.
(b) It continues to be ignorant of the disease and continues to allow those who are sick to be kept in positions of power.
(c) It reacts in a similar way to those who are addicted.
(d) It realizes that its addiction is affecting human life, but it does not care.

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

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

12. What is an example of a book that Vonnegut believes moralizes?
(a) "Lord of the Rings."
(b) "Gulliver's Travels."
(c) "Blubber."
(d) "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing."

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

14. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?
(a) He is not as wealthy as other in Cape Cod.
(b) He is a non-Anglo-Saxon.
(c) He is an Anglo-Saxon.
(d) He is not as intelligent as others in Cape Cod.

15. Jane, Vonnegut's first wife, is born a Quaker and dies as a member of what denomination?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Episcopalian.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Roman Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?

2. What does Vonnegut require of translators?

3. Who does the author have die glamorously in an airplane crash into Mt. Kilimanjaro?

4. What organization prevents Mozambicans from learning to read and write?

5. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?

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