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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although people with acute mental disorder are less often written off as hopeless, why is there still a lack of certainty for patients and their families?
(a) Most patients still have to be institutionalized.
(b) Psychological testing is dangerous.
(c) A dozen separate diseases are still lumped together as schizophrenia/manic depression.
(d) Medications can have severe adverse effects.

2. What do many of Vonnegut's books, including this one, not include?
(a) Fantasy creatures.
(b) Individual human beings.
(c) Social groups.
(d) Mammals.

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

4. Why are Germans frightening?
(a) They do not like Jews.
(b) They murder thousands during World War II.
(c) They like to fight other white people.
(d) They like to fight those from other cultures.

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

6. What features imperialism, the capture of other societies' lands, and treasure by arms?
(a) "The House of Mirth."
(b) "Hocus Pocus."
(c) "The Nation."
(d) "Le Petit Prince."

7. What university do Vonnegut's grandfather, father, uncle, and brother attend?
(a) Harvard.
(b) MIT.
(c) Yale.
(d) IUPUI.

8. What organization prevents Mozambicans from learning to read and write?
(a) WHO.
(b) World Vision.
(c) CARE.
(d) RENAMO.

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

10. How do jokes work?
(a) Comedians and the audienceshare a funny moment.
(b) The comedian tells the audience something funny about society that seems outrageous but is true.
(c) By hooking and releasing the listener, causing the release of fight-or-flight chemicals through laughter.
(d) Jokes connect the listener to other listeners.

11. When the definition for Schizophrenia has been tightened, how is Mark now classified?
(a) Mentally retarded.
(b) Suicidal.
(c) Manic-depressive.
(d) Schizophrenic.

12. Where does Vonnegut meet his first wife?
(a) The symphony.
(b) An art gallery.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) An automobile race.

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

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

15. After reading William Styron's DARKNESS VISIBLE how does Vonnegut classify those that are suicidal?
(a) They are either depressed or schizophrenic.
(b) Those that leave notes and those that do not.
(c) Those that blame it on brain wiring and chemistry or those that blame the Universe
(d) Those that are severe and those that are minor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In THE NATION what does Vonnegut claim is the U.S.'s most nurturing contribution to planetary culture?

2. Vonnegut believes MIT can set an example by adapting what to its undertakings?

3. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?

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

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

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