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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Vonnegut compare ignoring distractions and repeating a mantra?

2. Vonnegut's 1990 article in the New York Times observes that American humorists/satirists grow to be what past a certain age?

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

4. What does Vonnegut require of translators?

5. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?

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