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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 may unite mankind, by creating a generation that does not need to fight to be disillusioned by war?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Television.
(c) World peace.
(d) Unitarianism.

2. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?
(a) Romans throwing the Christians to the lions.
(b) Sending the Tibetans into exhile.
(c) Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
(d) Holocaust.

3. Why are ex-hippies ashamed to belong to their social class?
(a) They wish they had participated in the Vietnam War.
(b) They despise Vietnam vets.
(c) 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.
(d) They are embarrassed by their actions in the 1960s.

4. How do the Freethinkers behave?
(a) They are racist thugs.
(b) They humiliate those of other descents.
(c) They behave well, because they are motivated by the idea of heaven and hell.
(d) They behave well, even without the motivation of heaven and hell.

5. Why does Vonnegut believe Christians have no alternative but to hate and then kill in imaginary self-defense?
(a) They are trying to convert others but fail.
(b) Christians know there is a time to kill, as well as a time to heal.
(c) The religious leaders encourage them to hate others.
(d) Christians try and fail to love continually.

6. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?
(a) The people in "Skyscraper National Park."
(b) Native North Americans.
(c) Midwesterners.
(d) The Mayans of Central America.

7. What will bust up all cultures and create a Third-World planet?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Colonialism.

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

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

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

11. To what does Vonnegut compare ignoring distractions and repeating a mantra?
(a) Reading books.
(b) Writing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Cooking.

12. What does Vonnegut never think he owes to himself or the world?
(a) To return to writing.
(b) To become a litigator.
(c) To write a book about Jackson Pollock.
(d) To forgive his mother.

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

14. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?
(a) The "Modern Society" stage.
(b) The "Fauvist Society" stage.
(c) The "Marxist Society" stage.
(d) The "Folk Society" stage.

15. Vonnegut believes MIT can set an example by adapting what to its undertakings?
(a) The Third Time Step.
(b) Oedipus Complex.
(c) The Hippocratic Oath.
(d) The Vonnegut Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Vonnegut's speech, what power do the MIT graduates have?

2. Jane gives birth to how many children?

3. What university do Vonnegut's grandfather, father, uncle, and brother attend?

4. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, how many hours of television Failures of Christianity (murders) has one watched by graduation?

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

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