2. Those with addiction eventually hit rock bottom. Vonnegut believes Western Civilization hit rock bottom in World War I. Unlike those with addictions who admit that their addiction is ruining their lives, how does Western Civilization react to hitting rock bottom?
(a) It realizes that its addiction is affecting human life, but it does not care.
(b) It reacts in a similar way to those who are addicted.
(c) It buys more electronic devices to distract itself.
(d) It continues to be ignorant of the disease and continues to allow those who are sick to be kept in positions of power.

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

4. Who is the author of THE KILIMANJARO DEVICE?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(b) Mark Vonnegut.
(c) Ray Bradbury.
(d) Jane Austen.

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

6. How many Americans are of German descent?
(a) One in one hundred.
(b) One in three.
(c) One half.
(d) One in four.

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

8. What is the subtitle of SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
(a) "The Last Crusade."
(b) "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
(c) "The Children's Crusade."
(d) "A Mature Decision."

9. What is a scheme of self-defense that only maligned and oppressed minorities should be allowed to use?
(a) Humiliation.
(b) Murder.
(c) Humor.
(d) Threats.

10. What tough question does Vonnegut's book "Player Piano" ask?
(a) When will there be world peace?
(b) What are people for?
(c) Why do people hurt one another?
(d) What will happen to our planet in the future?

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

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

13. Vonnegut's 1990 article in the New York Times observes that American humorists/satirists grow to be what past a certain age?
(a) Grumpy.
(b) Sarcastic old men.
(c) Enthusiastic optimists.
(d) Intolerably unfunny pessimists.

14. What does Vonnegut dream the world will be like in 1,000 years?
(a) German descendants will be running the planet.
(b) There will still be rich and poor, but all will be descendants of people who endure insults without committing suicide or murder.
(c) There will be no humankind, because the various world leaders will lead their countries into massive wars.
(d) There will be no world in 1,000 years.

15. 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.