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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Rita Rait become the winner of a limerick contest?
(a) She is married to the judge.
(b) She wins the prize left by an eccentric British millionaire for the wittiest original limerick.
(c) She creates a competition and enters her own work.
(d) She is the best limerick writer in Russia.

6. Why are Vonnegut's jokes not funny?
(a) He lacks a way to let readers off the hook.
(b) His jokes are immature and childish.
(c) He never attempts to tell jokes.
(d) He is skilled at letting readers off the hook.

7. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?
(a) It is a wide-spread belief in diversity and acceptance of others.
(b) It is an organization that encourages country living.
(c) It is isolated geographically and members agree on what life is about and behave uniformly.
(d) It is an organization that teaches folk dances of various cultures.

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. Vonnegut compares the young people he addresses to what character in Camelot?
(a) Spamalot.
(b) St. Genevieve.
(c) Merlin.
(d) Sir Lancelot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

2. How do the Freethinkers behave?

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

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

5. Why are Germans frightening?

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