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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Vonnegut believe most ancient writings, including the Bible, do?
(a) Moralize.
(b) Mystify.
(c) Demonize.
(d) Degrade.

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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) World peace.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Television.

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

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

14. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?
(a) Auto-Immune Deficiency.
(b) Vitamin B Deficiency.
(c) Folk Society Deficiency.
(d) Gluten Deficiency.

15. 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) A dozen separate diseases are still lumped together as schizophrenia/manic depression.
(b) Psychological testing is dangerous.
(c) Most patients still have to be institutionalized.
(d) Medications can have severe adverse effects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Germans frightening?

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

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

4. Why does Rait believe she can say whatever she pleases in English?

5. What German-American movement did not survive?

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