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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In THE NATION what does Vonnegut claim is the U.S.'s most nurturing contribution to planetary culture?
(a) Abstract Expressionism.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Alcoholics Anonymous.
(d) Modern Dance.

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

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

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

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

7. With what magazine does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique in 1990 to write an article?
(a) Parade.
(b) National Geographic.
(c) US News and World Report.
(d) The New Yorker.

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

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

10. 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) Stop thinking and obey.
(c) Be free and live in peace.
(d) Divide and conquer.

11. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?
(a) Western Civilization builds weapons and convinces civilians to hate groups of humanity, but they do not want big wars.
(b) Mozambicans.
(c) Presidents Bush and Reagan.
(d) Third World Countries.

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

13. 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) Jokes connect the listener to other listeners.
(d) By hooking and releasing the listener, causing the release of fight-or-flight chemicals through laughter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jane gives birth to how many children?

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

4. What does Vonnegut believe may unite mankind, by creating a generation that does not need to fight to be disillusioned by war?

5. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?

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